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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Answer
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 '{}' ;