command line script to delete .svn files / folders

18 Responses to command line script to delete .svn files / folders

1. Dale Fraser says:

   April 7, 2007 at 3:49 am

   Doesn’t work.

   C:\>find ./ -name “.svn” | xargs rm -Rf
   ‘xargs’ is not recognized as an internal or external command,
   operable program or batch file.

   C:\>

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   • adam says:

     March 14, 2011 at 3:10 pm

     Dude, Unix/Linux command line Not windows Command Prompt!

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2. Tim Elsner says:

   April 7, 2007 at 5:09 am

   Great hint. Also, for those that don’t know, you can checkout a clean copy of the code directly from subversion by using “svn export”. This leave you with a perfect copy of the code, without the .svn folders.

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   • Ready4Android says:

     May 19, 2011 at 4:11 am

     THANKS ! I am moving to git right now and I was wondering how to free my repo from those evil .svn files – you’re tip did the job.

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3. A.J. Wright says:

   April 7, 2007 at 9:48 am

   Here is a slightly more efficient way of doing the same thing:

   find ./ -name .svn -exec rm -rf {} \;

   When you use -exec find will execute the command for every result returned via the find query into the argument {}

   Another useful command is to only perform and operation on files that have not been added or modified. You can do this like so:

   svn status | grep ? | awk ‘{print $2}’ | xargs rm -rf

   This would remove any file that has been added to the repository.

   Breaking it down

   svn status will return results like this:

   ? foo
   M build/projects/Community.iml
   M build/build.properties

   Piping it through grep ? will give you:

   ? foo

   Awk can be used to print out the column we want that is what the print $2 part of the awk command is for.

   foo

   finally pass the results to xargs rm

   Hope this is interesting.

   cheers,
   A.J.

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4. rob says:

   April 7, 2007 at 11:03 am

   I use:

   find ./ -name “.svn” -exec rm -rf {} \;

   which does the same thing with out the pipe (not that that matters though)

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6. michaelr says:

   October 13, 2007 at 11:49 pm

   worked for me in Cygwin

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9. Craig McQueen says:

   June 10, 2009 at 2:41 pm

   I had trouble with these if the pathnames contained spaces. This seemed to work however:

   find ./ -name “.svn” -exec rm -rf “{}” \;

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10. Dave says:

    August 6, 2009 at 6:01 pm

    Could also do

    find ./ -name “*.svn” -delete

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11. Arjen Heidinga says:

    September 17, 2009 at 3:05 am

    How about svn export?

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    • Javier Neyra says:

      April 13, 2011 at 6:50 am

      svn export doesn’t get out unversioned files…. so, in some cases it doesn’t work

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12. Hacker says:

    October 5, 2009 at 2:03 am

    Thanks!

    It still helps! Even 2 years later

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14. veelck says:

    May 11, 2011 at 2:53 am

    Still helps, even 4 years later

    thanks!

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15. Upul Abayagunawardhana says:

    December 6, 2011 at 1:41 am

    Thanks for this. Very helpful!

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