Newbie question about deleting multiple instances of a particular directory

[stuartb]

Hi There,

I am looking to delete all directories and files within the directories, from a directory.

Every directory has the same folder within it, which I am looking to remove, for example...

/var/www/website/.svn/
/var/www/website/folder1/.svn/
/var/www/website/folder1/subfolder1/.svn/

etc.

How can I remove all the folders named .svn/ (and all subfiles) instantly?

(If anyone is super clever and also knows the Windows command, that will save some Googling )

So far I think I'm close with

rm -Ri /var/www/ *.svn/

Any ideas? Thanks guys.

[devils casper]

Hi and Welcome !

rm -rf  /var/www/website/.svn

Above command will remove .svn folder including subfolders under .svn.

Check manual of rm command. man rm

[stuartb]

Hi no that didnt work, but I found a solution for other peoples reference,

find . -name .svn | xargs rm -vRf

cheers

[devils casper]

Thats weird. I will look into this. AFAIK, rm -rf removes folders and subfolders instantly.

[stuartb]

Hi Yea, When I tried your method it just said "directory does not exist", because .svn wasn't in the root, it was in every other directory below it.

Using the method I found, it did a search for all the .svn within all directories, then deleted them and the files.

I tried for hours messing about with rm -rf [options] and I wasnt getting anywhere, hence why I posted here

Thanks for your quick reply though, much appreciated, it led me to finding another solution.

I will no doubt be trying to pick your brains on other topics if you don't mind

[devils casper]

You are most welcome to ask for suggestion at any time.
I think problem was directory path only.