Comments on: unix command to delete the .svn folders

by: Tom

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 10:54:19 +0000

Depending on the situation, you might be able to just use the ’svn export’ to check out a clean tree?

by: Tim

Sat, 28 Feb 2009 04:53:01 +0000

I use this to delete temp mac osx files

find . -name “._*” -print0 | xargs -0 rm -Rf

handy to run before uploading a project via ftp.

by: Braden

Tue, 06 Mar 2007 22:18:23 +0000

Thanks a thousand. You too, Matt.

by: Craig

Tue, 09 Jan 2007 14:57:16 +0000

Thanks a bunch for this… Looking for an easy way to remove the .svn dirs without having to go to each directory. Saved me some serious time.

by: Matt

Tue, 17 Oct 2006 15:16:24 +0000

Or a slightly safer version:

find . -name “.svn” -print0 | xargs -0 rm -Rf

(those are zeros, not ohs, if your font shows them ambigiously)

This is slightly safer as is used a null byte () as the delimiter between entries, rather than a space. This means that if I happen to have a folder called “foo” and one with spaces in called “foo bar”, you might find a .svn dir present in “foo bar” will cause the whole of the “foo” directory to be deleted.

-Matt