deleting CVS administrative directories recursively

[Tom Legrady]

William O'Higgins wrote:

>I used to use CVS, and I am migrating to subversion.  I don't have my
>CVS respository (long story), and so the CVS directories all over the 
>place are of little use to me.  I would like to remove them all, but I'm
>not sure how.
>
>Should I do a find piped to a rm, or is there a better way?  I am
>uncertain of the best way to do this, and I'd rather not recursively
>deleted things I actually want, you know?  Thanks.
>  
>

You want

    sudo rm -rf /*

no, I mean:

    find $start_here -name CVS -exec rm -rf {} \;


Tom
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