How to remove .svn folders recursively?¶

Published: Tuesday, Aug 27, 2013 • 🏷️ bash

Validate the list of folders which will be removed:

$ find . -name .svn -exec ls {} \;

Run recursive remove:

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

This script is run from the current folder. Be sure you’ve specified find -name properly.

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