Comments on: Delete Unversioned Files Under SVN

By: Harsh kumar

Harsh kumar — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 10:35:41 +0000

thank u very much man

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Delete Unversioned Files Under SVN by Guy Rutenberg – Code Cafe — Mon, 30 May 2011 08:44:20 +0000

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By: Japan Shah

Japan Shah — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 10:11:26 +0000

Thanks,

Worked out of the box…..

By: Baz

Baz — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 13:21:40 +0000

Ugh, the blog mangled my command. The tr command was

tr space single-quote backslash n single-quote space single-quote backslash zero single-quote

By: Baz

Baz — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 13:19:22 +0000

Late to the party but… Andy, you’re right that spaces in filenames will cause problems if you pass them to xargs, but they’re not the only problematic character. The usual way to fix this is to use tr and the -0 flag on xargs, eg:

ls|tr ‘\n’ ”|xargs -0 rm

It’s what -0 is there for.

By: Alexander M. Batishchev

Alexander M. Batishchev — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 17:12:15 +0000

Great! Thanks a lot!

By: Optimus Pete - svn: delete unversioned files

Optimus Pete - svn: delete unversioned files — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 15:38:22 +0000

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By: Andy

Andy — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 15:19:27 +0000

Piping lines into xargs rm here *will* give you grief if you have spaces in your file names!

This is safer:
(svn status | grep ‘^[\?~]‘| cut -c 9- )| while read VICTIM; do
rm -fr “$VICTIM”
echo “Deleted $VICTIM”
done

By: Guy

Guy — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:05:39 +0000

awk is a great tool, but I lack comprehensive knowledge of it, thus I usually prefer other tools.

By: tobi

tobi — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 12:37:36 +0000

why not just using awk?

svn status –no-ignore|awk ‘/^\?/ {print $2}’|xargs rm