Argument list too long - help

[Muzer]

Carl Friis-Hansen wrote:
> I just discovered that ZoneManager has stored some 87000 png files in a
> directory.  I have no use of them and wanted to remove them.
> That turned out not to be so strait forward:
>
> carl at cjfh3:~$ rm Webcam_Pictures/*.png
> bash: /bin/rm: Argument list too long
> carl at cjfh3:~$
>
> How do I best come around this issue?
>   
for f in `ls Webcam_Pictures/*.png`; do rm $f; done

Should work, obviously not tested. You might want to replace the rm with 
something harmless like "echo" first, just to make sure.

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