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rsync

mkdir a-empty-folder
rsync -a --delete a-empty-folder/ your-target-folder/

find + xargs

find your-target-folder/ -type f -print0 | xargs -0r -P10  rm -f

This command will remove all the files in the target folder.

The key thing is we may execute it parallel.

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