Comments on: Delete Unversioned Files Under SVN

By: Alexander M. Batishchev

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

Great! Thanks a lot!

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

[...] to Guy Rutenberg for this, your definitely in my list of top 5 [...]

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

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.

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

why not just using awk?

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

Guy — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:28:37 +0000

@Lionel, that indeed seems to be a very nice solution. But I think it should be like this

svn stat --no-ignore | grep ^\? | cut -b 9- | xargs rm

I’ve replaced the 8 with a 9 as you want to start printing from the 9th byte to the eol.

Lionel — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 08:51:05 +0000

How about just cutting the 8 first characters?

svn stat --no-ignore | grep ^\? | cut -b 8- | xargs rm

joao — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 17:43:05 +0000

scratch my last comment, it's Ivan's way and should read


svn status --no-ignore | grep '^\?' | sed 's/^\?       //' | sed 's/ /\\ /g' | xargs rm

or something like that... Jeez this isn't easy...

joao — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 17:09:38 +0000

To properly deal with spaces one has to do:


svn status --no-ignore | grep '^\?' | sed 's/^\?      //' | sed 's/\([^^]\) /\1\\ /g' | xargs rm

in mac osx at least...

DEBO Jurgen — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:37:37 +0000

You can do it with sed only:

svn status –no-ignore | sed -n ‘s/^\?\s*$.*$/\1/p’ | xargs rm -rf