Argument list too long error for rm, cp, mv commands

Question

I have several hundred PDFs under a directory in UNIX. The names of the PDFs are really long (approx. 60 chars).

When I try to delete all PDFs together using the fol

Answer 1

Using GNU parallel (sudo apt install parallel) is super easy

It runs the commands multithreaded where '{}' is the argument passed

E.g.

ls /tmp/myfiles* | parallel 'rm {}'