How to delete all .svn folder in Linux / Mac?

Few days ago, i’m looking for way to delete all the .svn folder. Today i found the way to delete all .svn folder from my project folder in Linux.

To delete all .svn folder in Linux just follow the steps below:-

Start Terminal
change your current directory to your project folder (ex: /Users/me/Sites/project_a)
type
find ./ -name ".svn" | xargs rm -Rf
and enter.
Done, all your .svn folder has been deleted.

By the way, you also can apply this method to remove all .svn folder in Mac machine.

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Anil S says:

March 24, 2010 at 10:29 am

Thanks for the post. It helped me alot.
Merwok says:

September 13, 2009 at 3:11 am

Why -iname? These directories are always lower-case. Moreover, specifying “-type d” will ensure find returns only directories, not regular files. We could also make sure directories with spaces won’t cause the command to break. So:

find -type d -name .svn -print0 | xargs -0 rm -rf
Eranga J says:

August 6, 2009 at 4:23 pm

I prefer this:

rm -rf `find -iname .svn`
Palaniraja says:

June 19, 2009 at 8:00 pm

Thanks. It works for me in linux. ubuntu 8.04 but nautils-svn cache still show the svn icon overlay but there was no .svn folders.

Thanks again.
SoN9ne says:

January 7, 2009 at 8:14 am

This did no work for me on OSx.

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