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Create an empty directory i the same folder as the one that contains the large amount of files you want to delete.
<pre>mkdir empty_dir</pre>
Then execute this command:
<pre>rsync -a --delete empty_dir/    yourlargedirectory/</pre>
This command will grab everything in the directory "yourlargedirectory" and 'archive' it in "empty_dir" if a version of that already is there, else it will be deleted.
This is remarkably faster that using the otherwise well known command
<pre>rm -rf yourlargedirectory/</pre>

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