rm and the 'Argument list too long' error message

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If you have in directory more than 1024 files and you wish to delete them all at once, for sure you got error message "Argument list too long".
e.g. you did: 
rm -f *.log

To solve this problem, pipe the names of files one by one to rm command like this: 
find . -name '*.log' | xargs rm -f
It should be easy and still effective solution for you.
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