Efficiently delete large directory containing thousands of files

We have an issue with a folder becoming unwieldy with hundreds of thousands of tiny files. There are so many files that performing rm -rf returns an error and instead what we need to do is something like: find /path/to/folder -name "filenamestart*" -type f -exec rm -f {} \; This works but is very slow and constantly fails from running out of memory. Is there a better way to do this? Ideally I woul

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use rsync