How to Delete Millions of Files from a Folder

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Volodymyr Hodiak
May 1, 2019|3 min read|1196 views

Have you ever tried to delete millions of files from one folder? Quite often this question is discussed on forums. 
It’s true that a common method rm -rf fails if there are too many files. A simple solution looks the following way.

Search for files by mask and the files with these names will be deleted.


# find /path/to/files/ -type f | xargs rm

Now you can have tea and cookies ;)

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