Occasionally I want to copy some folders from one project to another using Finder, however, this also copies hidden .svn folders over which can cause problems later on. So after a little googling I found a nice way to recursively remove all .svn folders via the Terminal.
1 .Fire up Terminal.app and move to the folder you just copied:
$ cd Sites/mynewsite
Please double check you’re in the right folder with pwd before proceeding
2. You can check for the existence of .svn folders with the command:
$ find . -type d -name .svn
3. You can now pass this search into rm using grave accents (the backwards slanting ones to the left of the Z key)
$ rm -rf `find . -type d -name .svn`
Nice. If you were being really clever you could put this lot into a nice shell script to avoid having to remember the commands.
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