Here's a simple Ruby script to remove CVS directories. Useful if you move a large codebase from one repository to another. To use it just go to the root directory where you want to start the deleting and run the script. The script will start in the current working directory and apply the removal recursively.

   1  
   2  def deleteDir(dir)
   3      puts "cd #{dir}"
   4      Dir.chdir(dir)
   5      Dir.foreach(dir) do |file|
   6          if file != "." and file != ".."
   7              if File.directory?(file)
   8                  deleteDir("#{dir}/#{file}")
   9              else
  10                  puts "delete file #{file}"
  11                  File.delete(file)
  12              end
  13          end
  14      end
  15      Dir.chdir("..")
  16      puts "delete directory #{dir}"
  17      Dir.delete(dir)
  18  end
  19  
  20  def processDir(dir)
  21      #puts "Processing directory #{dir}"
  22      Dir.chdir(dir)
  23      Dir.foreach(dir) do |file|
  24          if File.directory?(file)
  25              if file == "CVS"
  26                  puts "Deleting directory #{dir}/#{file}"
  27                  deleteDir("#{dir}/#{file}")
  28              elsif file != "." and file != ".."
  29                  processDir("#{dir}/#{file}")
  30              end
  31          end
  32      end
  33      Dir.chdir("..")
  34  end
  35  
  36  puts "Working directory: #{Dir.pwd}"
  37  processDir(Dir.pwd)