Solved: /usr/bin/rm: Argument list too long

On Linux if you are trying to delete large no. of files then shell shows above mentioned message. After researching through several forums I found a solution for it. It’s similar to the earlier post related to taring large no. of files.



find . -name '*.txt' -print0 | xargs -0 rm



Note: Using “-print0″ & “-0″ escapes the spaces in the file name, otherwise it will be treated as multiple file names.