Re: Announcing RemoveSVN
Re: Announcing RemoveSVN
- Subject: Re: Announcing RemoveSVN
- From: "Johan Claesson" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2007 12:59:20 +0100 (CET)
- Importance: Normal
Once upon a time Chris Woods wrote:
> 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'.
This is rather OT, but xargs won't work if you have file or directory
names with spaces in them.
Use: find /path/to/folder -name '.svn' -type d -exec rm -r {} \;
/J
PS. There are more dangerous aspects of using xargs BTW... DS.
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