Remove all files recursively without deleting directories

If your top-level directory is called images, then run rm -r images/*. This uses the shell glob operator * to run rm -r on every file or directory within images.

The easier method would be to export the revision you want instead of checking it out. Try svn help export at the bash shell.

If you really want to use find to go through and remove all child directories called .svn you would do this:

find /path/to/search -type d -iname .svn -print0 | xargs -0 rm

EDIT

• -type d #look for directories only
• -iname .svn #case insensitive matching, probably not necessary
• -print0 #prints the full file name followed by a null character instead of newlines. it allows file names with spaces or other whitespace to be passed properly to xargs -0