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Recursively Remove CVS Or Subversion Files From Folders

12.02.2005
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        You could just swap CVS with .svn for subversion etc.


find -d . -name 'CVS' -exec rm -rf '{}' \; -print

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Snippets Manager replied on Thu, 2010/01/28 - 5:09am

The -d option is deprecated in GNU find version 4.1.20 This one does the same thing find . -name 'CVS' | xargs rm -r
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