If I try to delete too many files, I get :

bash: /bin/rm: Argument list too long

I use rm -f *

Try:

rm -f `ls | head`

a few times. That should delete the first 10 files in the directory each time you issue the command. You can change the number of files it deletes each time by using the -n parameter for head:

rm -f `ls | head -n 100`

would delete the first 100 files in the directory. Then after you have done that a few times, try:

rm -f *

and see if it will work then.

You can always use find to do that remove.

find . -name "*" -exec rm -f {} \;

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Originally posted by SPaReK
Try:

rm -f `ls | head`

a few times. That should delete the first 10 files in the directory each time you issue the command. You can change the number of files it deletes each time by using the -n parameter for head:

rm -f `ls | head -n 100`

would delete the first 100 files in the directory. Then after you have done that a few times, try:

rm -f *

and see if it will work then.