Description:
Many files may end up on the TIM due to defect storms or an unresponsive TIM Collector. In UNIX, running a ls or rm command may not work due to file expansion limits. Here are some alternatives.
Solution:
Using shell scripts and UNIX commands, there are many ways to do this. Some of these are listed below:
find . | xargs -n 50 rm -f --This deletes 50 files at a time find . -name \*.xml | xargs -n 50 rm -f -- delete 50 files at a time ending in xml Example with bash: for f in ( `ls`) do rm -f $f done
There are many links on this topic including:
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/96935/faster-way-to-delete-large-number-of-files