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command line script to delete .svn files / folders

I wrote this down in my notes.txt awhile back where it’ll eventually get lost, putting it here so that I search it from google:

find ./ -name ".svn" | xargs rm -Rf

source: http://www.rickhurst.co.uk/category/linux/

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:\>

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.

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.

I use:

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

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

Command to delete .svn files / folders [Linux Only]…

find ./ -name “.svn” | xargs rm -Rffind ./ -name “.svn” | xargs rm -Rf

Ref…

worked for me in Cygwin

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