Using linux shell commands such as cp, mv, rm you could encounter the following error message:
/bin/cp: Argument list too long.
Obviously you can modify system settings and increase the max number of files, but an easyer solution is using the find command.
Example: to remove a great number of temporary files in a folder, all with the ‘.dieg’ extension , try this (or something similar!):
find ./ -name ‘*.dieg’ -exec rm -r -v {} \;
As usual, type man find from terminal for more detailed information 😉