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Re: Announcing RemoveSVN
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Re: Announcing RemoveSVN


  • Subject: Re: Announcing RemoveSVN
  • From: Chris Woods <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2007 06:37:27 -0500

On Nov 5, 2007, at 4:51 AM, Johan Claesson wrote:


Once upon a time Sherm Pendley wrote:
You can do the same thing with a simple shell command, which works
not only in any version of Mac OS X, but in any other *nix as well:

find /path/to/folder -name '.svn' | xargs rm -r

Or more correct: find /path/to/folder -name '*.svn' -type f -exec rm -r {} \;

TIMTOWTDI.

It's difficult to make a case for "more correct" when both work (except yours wouldn't, since it wouldn't remove anything unless you had plain files with that name).

In general, xargs is more efficient anyway. With the -exec option passed to find, you're performing the command you're passing to exec anew with each result that find turns up. When you use xargs, you're building up the argument list using find, passing it en masse to xargs, which then passes the list en masse to whatever you're doing with the argument list, in this case 'rm'.


-- Chris Woods email@hidden gmail/gtalk: email@hidden



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