How to remove all svn directories from my application directories

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One of the missions of an export tool I have in my application  is to clean all  svn directories from my application directory tree  I am looking for a recursive command in the Linux shell that will traverse the entire tree and delete the  svn files   I am not using export  as this script will be used for some other file directory names which are not related to SVN  I tried something like     find   -name  svn   rm -fr   It didn t work

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Try this   find   -name  svn -exec rm -v         Read more about the find command at developerWorks

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Try this   find   -name  svn -exec rm -rf           Before running a command like that  I often like to run this first   find   -name  svn -exec ls

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You almost had it  If you want to pass the output of a command as parameters to another one  you ll need to use xargs  Adding -print0 makes sure the script can handle paths with whitespace   find   -type d -name  svn -print0 xargs -0 rm -rf

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find   -name  svn  xargs rm -rf

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In Windows  you can use the following registry script to add  Delete SVN Folders  to your right click context menu  Run it on any directory containing those pesky files    Windows Registry Editor Version 5 00   HKEY LOCAL MACHINE SOFTWARE Classes Folder shell DeleteSVN     Delete SVN Folders    HKEY LOCAL MACHINE SOFTWARE Classes Folder shell DeleteSVN command     cmd exe  c   TITLE Removing SVN Folders in  1  amp  amp  COLOR 9A  amp  amp  FOR  r    1     f IN   svn  DO RD  s  q     f

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Alternatively  if you want to export a copy without modifying the working copy  you can use rsync   rsync -a --exclude  svn path to working copy path to export

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If you don t like to see a lot of  find      svn   No such file or directory   warnings  then use the -depth switch   find   -depth -name  svn -exec rm -fr

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What you wrote sends a list of newline separated file names  and paths  to rm  but rm doesn t know what to do with that input   It s only expecting command line parameters   xargs takes input  usually separated by newlines  and places them on the command line  so adding xargs makes what you had work   find   -name  svn   xargs rm -fr   xargs is intelligent enough that it will only pass as many arguments to rm as it can accept   Thus  if you had a million files  it might run rm 1 000 000 65 000 times  if your shell could accept 65 002 arguments on the command line  65k files   1 for rm   1 for -fr     As persons have adeptly pointed out  the following also work   find   -name  svn -exec rm -rf       find   -depth -name  svn -exec rm -fr       find   -type d -name  svn -print0 xargs -0 rm -rf   The first two -exec forms both call rm for each folder being deleted  so if you had 1 000 000 folders  rm would be invoked 1 000 000 times   This is certainly less than ideal   Newer implementations of rm allow you to conclude the command with a   indicating that rm will accept as many arguments as possible   find   -name  svn -exec rm -rf        The last find xargs version uses print0  which makes find generate output that uses  0 as a terminator rather than a newline   Since POSIX systems allow any character but  0 in the filename  this is truly the safest way to make sure that the arguments are correctly passed to rm or the application being executed   In addition  there s a -execdir that will execute rm from the directory in which the file was found  rather than at the base directory and a -depth that will start depth first

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As an important issue  when you want to utilize shell to delete  svn folders You need -depth argument to prevent find command entering the directory that was just deleted and showing error messages like e g    find     svn  No such file or directory    As a result  You can use find command like below   cd  dir to delete svn folders  find   -depth -name  svn -exec rm -fr

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No need for pipes  xargs  exec  or anything   find   -name  svn -delete   Edit  Just kidding  evidently -delete calls unlinkat   under the hood  so it behaves like unlink or rmdir and will refuse to operate on directories containing files

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There are already many answers provided for deleting the  svn-directory  But I want to add  that you can avoid these directories from the beginning  if you do an export instead of a checkout   svn export  lt url gt

[linux] How to remove all .svn directories from my application directories

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