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Recursively remove .svn directories (ruby script) (See related posts)

This snippet traverses a directory tree and removes .svn directories.

require 'find'
require 'fileutils'
Find.find('./') do |path|
  if File.basename(path) == '.svn'
    FileUtils.remove_dir(path, true)
    Find.prune
  end
end
to ruby svn subversion by HelgeG on Wed Oct 04 09:42:15 +0000 2006

Comments on this post

nickstenning posts on Oct 07, 2006 at 12:35
Erm...

`find . -type d -name .svn -delete`
SnapShot posts on Nov 01, 2006 at 01:38
BTW, unix command line version fails unless all of the .svn directories are already empty. The ruby version does not have this limitation.
nedric posts on Nov 22, 2006 at 17:13
You probably have another reason for wanting to delete .svn dirs, but just in case: you should look at the svn 'export' command. You can use it on a url or working copy to cleanly extract just the contents without the svn metadata.
Jeff-O-Noah posts on Feb 21, 2007 at 01:29
How about best of both worlds? Use the find command above to provide a list of directories to delete within a much simpler shell script: 
#!/bin/sh
for FILE in `find . -type d -name .svn`;
do
echo $FILE
rm -r $FILE
done
incognito posts on Mar 05, 2007 at 05:55 

find . -type d -name .svn | xargs rm -rf
</code?
calib0rx posts on Jul 07, 2008 at 22:41
or...

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

the "-exec rm -rf {} \;" block tells find to execute "rm -rf" for a match (it replaces {} with the filename), and the "\;" is necessary to let the -exec switch know where the command passing stops.
rashoodollison posts on Nov 25, 2009 at 12:31
Thanks again for this tip. One thing to note: for me, this ran into problems with directories:

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

I got “.svn is a directory” errors.

I had to add the rf flags:

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

That worked for me.



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rashoodollison posts on Nov 25, 2009 at 12:32
I always forget these smart oneliners, I always end up with :

rm -rf */.svn
rm -rf */*/.svn
rm -rf */*/*/.svn

also works like a dog :)
maybe one should make an alias for the smart oneliner


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