Archive for May, 2007

Remove .svn folders from a directory tree

Grabbed this from irc – so very very handy.

Chuck this in your .bash_aliases file (if you have enabled it) and you will be able to recursively remove those pesky hidden svn folders from a directory tree with rmsvn:


alias rmsvn="find . -name '*.svn' -exec rm -rf {} \;"


A reliable text editor

I was complaining to someone the other day about how most text editors fail to deal with large files. I was trying to edit a 8mb sql file and my default editors eclipse and cream (a vim extension) both couldn’t handle it. I then tried emacs and jEdit neither of which I particularly like. jEdit at least opened the file. But the interface is clunky and on my system at least, wont go past 800×600 screen real estate….

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