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Recursively remove .svn directories

Terminal - Recursively remove .svn directories
find . -type d -name .svn -delete
2010-03-01 18:48:31
User: jmcantrell
Functions: find
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Recursively remove .svn directories
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find . -name .svn -exec rm -r {} +;
2010-02-23 10:24:16
User: nishan_n
Functions: find rm
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Recursively remove .svn directories
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find . -iname ".svn" | xargs rm -r $1
2012-05-07 08:18:12
User: rwunsch
Functions: find rm xargs
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Recursively remove .svn directories
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find -type d -name ".svn" -print0 | xargs -0 rm -rf
2010-02-25 10:16:18
User: tuxilicious
Functions: find rm xargs
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Recursively remove .svn directories

man find: If no paths are given, the current directory is used. - Can anybody tell me why so many people are typing the dot?

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rm -rf `find . -name .svn`
2010-02-23 08:35:06
User: jfcalvo
Functions: rm
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Recursively remove .svn directories

Recursively remove .svn directories from the current location.

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ls -RAx | grep "svn:$" | sed -e "s/svn:/svn/" | xargs rm -fr
2010-02-23 08:42:15
User: ook
Functions: grep ls rm sed xargs
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What others think

It took 6 times to get this simple command right? And i hate to break it to you, but you should be using "svn export" anyway, especially since you're likely to have your working copy in some special location for working copies only

Comment by rkulla 168 weeks and 2 days ago

No idea what gt3 is trying to say, but... Downvoting this because it does not work. The -delete option won't remove nonempty directories, at least on my system. and .svn directories will always be nonempty. You could try to contort find to your will, but -prune won't work with -delete. You have to do something like the solution by nishan_n (#4917).

Comment by bwoodacre 168 weeks and 2 days ago

bwoodacre, if you click the title of the cmomand 'Recursively remove .svn directories' there's 5 previous attempts by other people to do this command on commandlinefu.com. That's what I meant by "it took 6 times".

However, you're correct, this command is wrong and will report "Directory not empty". I should have said that nishan_n had it closer but i still think people should just use 'svn export' if they want to get rid of the .svn directories safely.

Comment by rkulla 168 weeks and 1 day ago

You are right, the suggestion to use svn export is easier and less error-prone if you just want a .svn-free version of a particular chunk of a *repository*. But that doesn't handle any differences that your working copy has: unversioned files that you want to keep around, or checked-in files with changes that you don't want committed.

Comment by bwoodacre 168 weeks and 1 day ago

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