[Fix] /bin/rm: Argument list too long

[Fix] /bin/rm: Argument list too long


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If you have too many files to remove and rm -rf doesn't work, try this great solution:

find . -name '*' | xargs rm -v

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Muhammad El-Saeed

Muhammad El-Saeed

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Technical writer and software engineer, he's a part of the great Brightery team that have many project on the opensource community

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