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Patrioticcow
Patrioticcow

Reputation: 27038

How to remove all folders with a specific name recursively from all sub directories?

Here is a sample of some directory paths 

find . -name .svn;

./application/views/scripts/soft/.svn
./application/views/scripts/sitemap/.svn
./application/views/scripts/register/.svn
./application/views/scripts/home/.svn
./application/views/scripts/terms-of-service/.svn
./application/views/scripts/promotions/.svn
./application/views/scripts/test/.svn
./application/views/scripts/privacy-policy/.svn
./application/views/scripts/services/.svn
./application/views/scripts/mobile/.svn
./application/test/.svn
./application/public/.svn

I want to remove all .svn folders from all this directories at once from the current root directory I'm in.

Any deas?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 49

Answers (2)

Grant Seltzer
Grant Seltzer

Reputation: 95

find . -name \*.svn -type f -delete

Upvotes: 1

Davide Spataro
Davide Spataro

Reputation: 7482

You can do (added -type d to your find command to get folders only)

rm -rf `find . -type d -name .svn`

Upvotes: 2

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