Comments on: How-To: Recursively remove .svn folders

Comments on: How-To: Recursively remove .svn folders http://blog.evandavey.com/2009/08/how-to-recursively-remove-svn-folders.html Tech tips, hints, and general musings. PHP, Perl, Mysql, Javascript, AJAX, JSON, Linux, Mac OSX Tue, 22 Nov 2011 00:50:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Uli http://blog.evandavey.com/2009/08/how-to-recursively-remove-svn-folders.html/comment-page-1#comment-1309 Uli Sun, 06 Sep 2009 11:33:36 +0000 http://blog.evandavey.com/?p=546#comment-1309 There is a limit on how many arguments you can pass on the command line and the method you describe can easily hit this limit. I always use: find . -type d -name .svn -print0 | xargs -0 rm -rf The '-print0' and '-0' options deal with directories/filenames that contain spaces. There is a limit on how many arguments you can pass on the command line and the method you describe can easily hit this limit.

I always use:
find . -type d -name .svn -print0 | xargs -0 rm -rf

The ‘-print0′ and ‘-0′ options deal with directories/filenames that contain spaces.

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