Argument List Too Long When Removing Files

Created in October 20, 2015

2015   ·   workflow   ·   compute

If this doesn’t work:

rm *.filetype

Try this:

find . -maxdepth 1 -name "*.filetype" -print0 | xargs -0 rm


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