do an ls in a huge dir and print out a shell script to remove. better than shell globbing

bigls.py

# when you have millions of files
# this is faster than ls if you don't need the other metadata
# like mod times or perms

from os import listdir
files = listdir(".")
 
# here we can output the giant list with some rm commands
# then you can pipe it to sh -x to perform the operations you wawnt
# or grep out the noise first

for file in files:
  print  "rm " +  file