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If you just want to get rid of many files as soon as possible ls -f1 /path/to/folder/with/many/files/ | xargs rm might work okay, but better don't run it on production systems or your system will freeze sooner or later.

This script works nicely for many files and should not affect the ioload of the system.

#!/bin/bash

FOLDER="/path/to/folder/with/many/files"
FILE_FILENAMES="/tmp/filenames"


while true; do
    FILES=$(ls -f1 $FOLDER | wc -l)
    if [ "$FILES" -gt 10000 ]; then
        printf "[%s] %s files found. going on with removing\n" "$(date)" "$FILES"
        # Create new list of files
        ls -f1 $FOLDER | head -n 5002 | tail -n 5000 > "$FILE_FILENAMES"
        
        if [ -s $FILE_FILENAMES ]; then
            while read FILE; do
                rm "$FOLDER$FILE"
                sleep 0.005
            done < "$FILE_FILENAMES"
        fi
    else
        printf "[%s] script has finished, almost all files have been deleted" "$(date)"
        break
    fi
    sleep 5
done