Jochen Schulz wrote:
Ken Irving: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 {} \;GNU find also accepts the parameter (or better: operation) -detele so you don't have to start an rm process for each file or deal with xargs. That means you can just do (untested): $ find . -type d -name .svn -delete J.
Sorry to say, this is not so: mkdir -p xxx/yyy cp some files xxx cp some files xxx/yyy find xxx -type d -delete find: cannot delete xxx/yyy: Directory not empty find: cannot delete xxx: Directory not emptyI think, because you restricted the search to directories, it tries to delete the directories, which still have files because the 'find' ignored them.
-- Bob McGowan
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