Re: bash script question

[Ken Irving <fnkci@uaf.edu>]

On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 10:27:30AM -0600, ChadDavis wrote:
> I have a simple bash scripting question.
> 
> I have a tree of directories from which I would like to recursively dig into, removing source
> control meta-information from.  In this case, the meta-data is in .svn folders. 
> 
> Does anyone have any elegant suggestions on how to do this? 

If you want to remove the .svn/ directories and everything within them, something
like this should work (remove the 'echo' if the output looks ok):

  $ cd starting/directory
  $ find . -type d -name .svn -exec echo rm -r {} \;

or:

  $ find . -type d -name .svn | xargs echo rm -r

I'd recommend EXTREME CAUTION any time you're scripting rm, particularly with
the -r option.   Often you may need to do this as root to have rm work without
prompting, and it's easily possible to do real damage by accident...

Ken

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Ken Irving, fnkci+debianuser@uaf.edu