How to use Terminal to delete all .svn folders recursively?

Use find, which does recursion in the current directory . filetype is directory filename is .svn print what matched up to this point (the .svn dirs) exec the command . the {} is a placeholder for the entity found the ; tells find that the command for exec is done. Since the shell also has an idea of what ; is, you need to escape it with \ so that the shell doesn't do anything special with it, and just passes to find