Automatically remove Subversion unversioned files

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this works for me in bash:

 svn status | egrep '^\?' | cut -c8- | xargs rm

Seth Reno‘s is better:

svn status | grep ^\? | cut -c9- | xargs -d \\n rm -r

It handles unversioned folders and spaces in filenames

As per comments below, this only works on files that subversion doesn’t know about (status=?). Anything that subversion does know about (including Ignored files/folders) will not be deleted.

If you are using subversion 1.9 or greater you can simply use the svn cleanup command with –remove-unversioned and –remove-ignored options

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