If you get "Too many files..." message as some command's answer you can use find's --exec parameter, or the xargs command:
For example:
to delete specific files (*.log) from one directory
find /sample/directory -name '*.log' -exec rm {} \;
, or to scp them:
find /sample/directory/ -name *.log | xargs --max-args=1 -I '{}' scp '{}' someuser@somehost:somedest
