How to remove all .svn directories from my application directories

Question

One of the missions of an export tool I have in my application, is to clean all .svn directories from my application directory tree. I am looking for a recursiv

Answer 1

You almost had it. If you want to pass the output of a command as parameters to another one, you'll need to use xargs. Adding -print0 makes sure the script can handle paths with whitespace:

find . -type d -name .svn -print0|xargs -0 rm -rf