If you have more than 1,024 files in a directory and wish to delete them all at once, you may encounter the error message: Argument list too long.
For example, if you run:
rm -f *.log
When using rm -f *.log in a directory with thousands of files, the command may fail because the shell cannot handle so many arguments at once.
To resolve this issue, you can pipe the file names to the rm command one by one using the following approach:
find . -name '*.log' | xargs rm -f
This method is both simple and effective for deleting a large number of files.
You can also use find with -delete if your version supports it:
find . -name '*.log' -delete