Remove files

Hi experts,
I am trying to remove files in our unix box where there are nearly 10000 of files .
i am using the below command, but it says no match, or too many arguments etc.
rm -rf 200607?/* and rm -rf 200607/*.
Please help.
thanks
anuroop

> When i have done as you have said, i got the below
> ./200809121322150001436315
> ./20080912132216000038001434
> ./200809121322170001436315
> ./200809121322180001435709
Ok - so your find command seems to work.
If you now do
find . -name 2006* | head
then comes the error message?
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