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  1. # This searches recursively for all directories (-type d) in the hierarchy starting at "." (current directory), and finds those whose name is '.svn'; the list of the found directories is then fed to rm -rf for removal.
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  3. find . -name '.svn' -type d | xargs rm -rf
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  5. # If you want to try it out, try
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  7. find . -name '.svn' -type d | xargs echo
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  9. # This should provide you with a list of all the directories which would be recursively deleted.
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  13. # Another way is: 
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  15. find . -name ".svn" -exec rm -rf {} \;
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  17. #Try something like this first to do a dry run:
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  19. find . -name ".svn" -exec echo {} \;
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  21. #Note that the empty braces get filled in with the file names and the escaped semicolon ends the command that is executed (starting after the "-exec").

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