How to clean .svn directories from subversion working copy?

The well known way is svn export. Some times this command is not applicable. You can use this simple shell command in this case (Linux/*nix only).

find destination/directory_name/ -name .svn -type d | xargs -n 1 rm -rf

You need to change destination/directory_name/ to your real path, what you want clean.

Or here is a simple bash script. Use this for

#!/bin/bash
if [ -z $1 ]
then
   echo "Usage: $0 <directory_path>"
   echo "Where <directory_path> is the path what you want clean."
   exit
fi
 
find $1 -name .svn -type d | xargs -n 1 rm -rf

Copy and paste this script to a file at your /usr/local/bin/. (For example: svn-cleaner.sh)

You make it executable: chmod +x /usr/local/bin/svn-cleaner.sh

Now you can run svn cleaner script as svn-cleaner.sh and all .svn directory will delete.

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