Comments on: Recursively remove .svn directories

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:56:22 +0000

Another way:

svn export working_directory new_directory

It will copy a directory to the new location without .svn directories.

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By: bryan

bryan — Sat, 23 May 2009 23:46:05 +0000

Thanks for all the comments guys, I will be updating the post shortly.

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 23 May 2009 14:25:36 +0000

You should use “-depth” as well for the find command.

The reasoning is that without it it will delete the top directories first and then try to delete the already deleted sub directories which wont work for obvious reasons.

Makes no difference if you run a one liner in a shell but might be a PITA if run inside a script.

By: levi_h

levi_h — Fri, 22 May 2009 08:35:13 +0000

Or the xargs variant of course:

find . -name .svn | xargs rm -r

I’m impressed with anyone who can remember the syntax for find’s exec switch

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 21 May 2009 20:44:51 +0000

I’d actually say that this:

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

is better if for no other reason than the lack of catastrophe in the event of a typo. Sure, it’s being fearful, but that’s definitely better than deleting the whole tree accidentally.

By: lbruno

lbruno — Thu, 21 May 2009 18:42:06 +0000

find . -name .svn | xargs rm -rf

-exec is for: -exec mv {} /other/ \;

By: bryan

bryan — Thu, 21 May 2009 16:32:37 +0000

Ah yeah. I’m going to append that to the post — thanks!

By: meinholz

meinholz — Thu, 21 May 2009 16:05:42 +0000

Another option is:

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

Tye -type d isn’t really necessary. If you name a file .svn, doom on you.

I don’t know if this way is better or not, just an alternative.

By: Kalpesh Sutaria

Kalpesh Sutaria — Wed, 20 May 2009 19:36:33 +0000

Why wouldn’t you use ’svn export’ instead?