chris clarke

Self-deleting script accident

I was working on a build which kept generating loads of files but not cleaning them afterwards. This was causing tests to fail because of stuff hanging around between builds.
So, I wrote a script which deletes files that are local and not in the Subversion repository.

#!/bin/bash

echo Deleting all local files not in Subversion repository:
echo
svn st | grep ? | awk '{ print "deleting... " $2; }'
echo
svn st | grep ? | awk '{print $2; }' | xargs rm -rf
echo Remaining differences to repository:
echo
svn st

Only problem was, because the script was not added to Subversion - it deleted itself.