---
title: "Recursively delete .svn directories"
date: "2013-04-25"
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The fastest way I have found of finding (and then deleting) .svn directories is to run the following:

```
find /home/domain/public_html -type d -name .svn
```

And if you need to delete the found lines use:

`find /home/domain/public_html -type d -name .svn -exec rm -rf {} \;`