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Delete x files from folder in a for i loop

Recently I tried to remove a big bunch of files from one of my raspberry pies where ffmpeg had swamped my SD-card with too many capture images. So I had to delete x files from folder.

I just tried:

rm -rf *.jpg

But that gave me an “unable to execute /bin/rm: Argument list too long” error message.

So I needed a bash script that helps me to delete x files from folder. That’s why I wrote this tiny…