one-liner for removing 'CVS' or '.svn' directories
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Mon. Aug. 14th, 2006 7:31 AM
Recursively removes files or directories with a given name, using find.
I most frequently use it to remove 'CVS' or '.svn' directories from sourcepackages that still have the versioning information in them.
I most frequently use it to remove 'CVS' or '.svn' directories from sourcepackages that still have the versioning information in them.
find ./ -name 'CVS' -execdir rm -rf '{}' \; -print
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Bobby R Ward
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find ./ -name '.svn' -type d -exec rm {} \;