How to Delete Millions of Files from a Folder

By the way, how to delete millions of files from one folder? I often come across this question on forums.

it’s true that a common method rm -rf fails if there are too many files (I haven’t counted exactly ). There’s a solution.

Search for files by mask and the files with these names will be deleted.

# find /path/to/files/ -type f | xargs rm

Now you can have tea and cookies.

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