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Day: October 17, 2023

Written by ZacharySTOctober 17, 2023March 5, 2025

Remove Files When Argument List is Too Long

This note is for a very simple use case: you want to remove a bunch of files from your Linux system but “bunch” is more than the system will accept, so you are given an error that the “argument list is too long”. This Stack Overflow answer was very helpful: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11289551/argument-list-too-long-error-for-rm-cp-mv-commands. For my specific case, […]

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