Recursively delete folders

[dmccormack]

Hi

I am after spending 3 hours trying to just recursively delete some folders and I'm slowly going mad now.

I've tried different variations of the following:

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find . -name .svn -print0 | xargs -0 rm -rf

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find . -name .svn -exec 'rm -rf {}\;'

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rm -rf `find . -name .svn'

I wrote a script but some of the folders contain spaces, so it is also not working:

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find . -name ".svn" -print | while read file; do
   rm -rf $file
done


What am i doing wrong, this should not be so difficult

[dmccormack]

I had to install the find command from Optware in order to get this running, but works now.