Remove .svn files / folders

I have found from some where to use the below syntax for remove .svn folders. And it works for me so i thought it might be useful. So i shared this

find ./ -name ".svn" | xargs rm -Rf

or

find ./ -name “.svn” -exec rm -rf {} \;

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