If you have tried to empty any large folders, such as mailbox directories or temporary folders on a linux server you will probably encountered the following error:

-bash: /bin/rm: Argument list too long

An easy way around this is to use the following command (this will remove all files in the folder you run this command):

find . | xargs rm

If you want to delete files with a specific string in them, you can do with the following:

find . -name ‘*string*’ | xargs rm