How to remove a file with @ in it's name from svn in command line?

Question

With the new iPhone 2x files i've stumbled uppon this problem...

Answer 1

You need to add a "@" sign in the end to get SVN to process the file.

For example, if you had a file called [email protected] which you want to add to SVN, you would type:

svn add [email protected]@

If you have lots of files with the "@" symbol in their name that you want to process in a batch (i.e. use * wildcard), you can do something like this in OS X Terminal:

find . -name "*@*" | xargs -I % svn add %@

The above command will use the find utility to list out each file with @ in its filename and then pipe each filepath to SVN using XARGS.

For each filepath, XARGS will execute the provided command svn add %@, except that -I % tells XARGS to replace each occurrence of "%" in the provided command, with the filepath piped. XARGS effectively appends the special "@" at the end of the filename.

For example, after replacing the "%" character, XARGS will execute svn add path/to/your/[email protected]@; SVN will accept this (presumably because SVN looks for the last occurrence of "@" and treats this as a revision specifier)

Hope this helps - I had to whack my head for a bit to add the gazzilion @2x.png files that were needed for my app to be upgraded for iOS4.0