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bash – Argument List Too Long

I've got several scripts that have been failing recently due to the high number of files in a directory.

Say for example, my site wide spamassassin Bayes learning script that runs nightly, it has started failing sometimes when a lot of spam has been caught by users.

I'd see

bash: /bin/rm: Argument list too long

A fix would look like this

for i in /your/directory
do
rm -rvf $i
done

find would probably also do the same job.

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