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Recursively Removing .svn Folders From .

08.17.2010

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        // description of your code here

//"recursively removing .svn folders from"
pwd
rm -rf `find . -type d -name .svn`

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bash
Linux
svn

Comments

Snippets Manager replied on Tue, 2007/06/05 - 11:43am

Or: find . -type d -name .svn | xargs rm -rf This could be better when 'find' returns a lot of files and the input command line buffer is overflown... xargs takes care of keeping command line not too long...