Recursively remove all files in a CVS directory

for dir in $(find -type d ! -name CVS); do for file in $(find $dir -maxdepth 1 -type f); do rm $file; cvs delete $file; done; done

This will search all directories and ignore the CVS ones. Then it will search all files in the resulting directories and act on them.

By: ubersoldat

2010-04-27 16:03:33

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Recursively remove all files in a CVS directory

This command removes and then cvs removes all files in the current directory recursively.
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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find . -type f ! -path \*CVS\* -exec rm {} \; -exec cvs remove {} \;

jasonsydes · 2013-06-28 20:17:40 7
Recursively remove all files in a CVS directory

This command is much faster than the alternatives, because it uses one cvs command to remove everything, instead of doing a separate cvs command for each individual file. The '-f' option removes the file from disk as well as from CVS. Note that those are backticks in the command (under the tilde key), not single quotes. Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
cvs remove: scheduling `./file1.txt' for removal
cvs remove: scheduling `./somedir/file2.txt' for removal
```
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cvs remove -f `find . -type f ! -path \*CVS\*`

ssorley · 2016-07-13 17:45:05 13

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