Command line to delete matching files and directories recursively

Question

How can I recursively delete all files & directories that match a certain pattern? e.g. remove all the \".svn\" directories and the files they contain?

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Answer 1

Something like this may do the trick, but of course be careful with it!

find . -name ".svn" -exec rm -rf {} \;

Try something like this first to do a dry run:

find . -name ".*" -exec echo {} \;

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").