Getting error in invalid number of arguments when deleting large number of files in directory ?
The error is due to bash shell has a limit of 2621440 to the number of arguments you can pass to a command. This can be verified by,
[root@hostab ~]# getconf ARG_MAX
2621440
Solution to this problem is to use the find command along with xargs,
cd to the directory where you want to delete files and run below command
find . -name ‘*’ |xargs rm