Deleting all folders and files underneath it in linux with a certain name?

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Published on 2010-05-25T09:46:15Z Indexed on 2010/05/25 9:51 UTC
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I have the following structure:

/.svn
/bla/.svn
/hello/.svn
/bla/bla/bla/.svn
... etc

I want to delete all the .svn folders. How do I do it?

It's NOT:

rm -rf .svn

In windows you use the /s trigger. How do you do it linix?

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