deleting CVS administrative directories recursively

[Peter Hiscocks]

A good preliminary step is to do a version of the find and destroy command
that simply prints a list of the files. If these are the ones and only the
ones that you want to erase, then rerun the command with the rm version.

So using Tom's suggestion, first do

find $start_here -name CVS 

which you could throttle by piping to 'more' or 'less', or you could
redirect to a temporary file and then munge through with an editor.

Then hold your breath and run the destroyer version:

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

Peter

On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 12:30:49PM -0400, Tom Legrady wrote:
> 
> 
> 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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