Question

So I accidentally committed my eclipse .project and .settings files & directories. Instead of going through each folder in the command line (huge amount of folders) is there a way to go through each folder and if one of those files/directories is found, run a svn delete .project?

I was thinking something like:

 find . name ".settings" -exec "svn delete .settings" {} \;

but I always get the “No such file or directory error”

Answer 1

find . -iname .settings -exec svn delete {} \;

EDIT: For your more understanding about find command usage:

sgeorge-mn:stack sgeorge$ mkdir .settings
sgeorge-mn:stack sgeorge$ mkdir -p dir1/.settings
sgeorge-mn:stack sgeorge$ mkdir -p dir2/.settings
sgeorge-mn:stack sgeorge$ mkdir -p dir2/dir2_1/.settings

sgeorge-mn:stack sgeorge$ find . -type d -iname .settings
./.settings
./dir1/.settings
./dir2/.settings
./dir2/dir2_1/.settings

sgeorge-mn:stack sgeorge$ find . -type d -iname .settings -exec ls -ld {} \;
drwxr-xr-x  2 sgeorge  wheel  68 Jan 18 21:59 ./.settings
drwxr-xr-x  2 sgeorge  wheel  68 Jan 18 21:59 ./dir1/.settings
drwxr-xr-x  2 sgeorge  wheel  68 Jan 18 21:59 ./dir2/.settings
drwxr-xr-x  2 sgeorge  wheel  68 Jan 18 21:59 ./dir2/dir2_1/.settings