How to delete all files older than 3 days when “Argument list too long”?

Question

I\'ve got a log file directory that has 82000 files and directories in it (about half and half).

I need to delete all the file and directories which are older than 3

Answer 1

Another solution for the original question, esp. useful if you want to remove only SOME of the older files in a folder, would be smth like this:

find . -name "*.sess" -mtime +100 

and so on.. Quotes block shell wildcards, thus allowing you to "find" millions of files :)