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

If you want to copy it without exporting and eliminating the .svn from the projects, you shold use the /EXCLUDE option from XCOPY.

Like this:

xcopy /S/Q/EXCLUDE:svn.excludelist [path_from] [path_to\]

Observe the "\" (backslash) on the [path_to]. It determines that it's an output directory, so, xcopy will not question if it's a file or a directory.

The svn.excludelist is a text file containing the patterns to ignore on copy separated by line.

For Example:

.svn
.svn\
\.svn\
.obj
.o
.lib
\src\

And so on...