Comments on: Find and Remove Hidden Folders .svn Ubuntu Linux Command Line

By: McFly

McFly — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 08:22:32 +0000

Thanks a bunch!

By: Nibhrit

Nibhrit — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 11:32:36 +0000

Thanks a ton. This thing was driving me crazy!!

By: k

Sat, 22 Aug 2009 17:07:56 +0000

Depending your particular reason for doing this you may want to consider svn export…

cd /mysvn/path/iwant/to/delete/svn/folders
svn export ./ /path/for/clean/directory/structure

“svn export” exports a clean copy of your version-controlled directory to a target directory without messing with the original.

By: eric db

eric db — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 17:42:07 +0000

Exactly what I was looking for, thanks!

By: nick humphrey

nick humphrey — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 10:31:27 +0000

probably good to mention that you should first cd (change directory) to the folder you want to recursively search in because find will start finding from your working directory.

also i tried this in ubuntu 8.10 intrepid and i didn’t get any results until i rewrote it to this:
find -name .svn -exec rm -fdr {} \;

thanks for getting me on the right path at least. keep keeping it real bro =)

is that you paddling over that big wave? that guy has balls. “i like balls.” (team america, world police)

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 20:42:57 +0000

Thanks a ton! After looking at plenty of inimitably fail forum threads this succinct post has solved my n00b problem Thanks again!

By: ML

ML — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 13:47:34 +0000

This is what I was looking for, great. Thanks!!!

By: clintonskakun

clintonskakun — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 19:19:37 +0000

LOL, this is the same thing I do. I also like removing the ~backup files eg index.php~