Removing large amount of files (argument list too long)

3 useful commands when you have a large amount of files to delete in case you’ve reached the inode limit or just want to remove them.

view inode usage

df -i

how many files?

ls -U1 | wc -l

Remove a folder containing these files

rm -fr folder/* or pattern like rm -fr folder/sess_*

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