SSH/Shell - Remove all folders with name "____" within folder AND subfolders

Question

I have a script that is copying a folder that contains a couple sub folders. The original that it is copying from is part of an SVN folder, so it is copying those ".svn" folders as well.

I want to remove those from the new destination, my best guess was:

rm -Rf dir/*.svn

Which doesn't work, is there a way to do this or do I need to manually go into each folder to delete it?

Answer 1

From within the folder whose contents you want to filter:

find . -name '.svn' -print0 | xargs -0 rm -rf

or

find . -name '.svn' -exec rm -rf {} \;

Answer 2

Take a look at this: http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/2486