Deal with /bin/rm: Argument list too long

As a linux user or administrator, you will someday will need to delete files that pile up your storage. If there are a lot of files (I dont know exactly how much), it will report :

/bin/rm: Argument list too long

Here’s how to handle it :

find . -name ‘[FILE-PREFIX]*’ | xargs rm

For example you want to delete cache_* files, the syntax is :

find . -name ‘cache_*’ | xargs rm