How to revert files with specific extension in svn?

Question

I would like to do something like this:

svn revert --recursive mydata/*/*.txt

and I want it to revert all files which have extension *.txt in the directory mydata. Is there a way to do that?

Answer 1

On a POSIX-compatible OS (Linux/Mac/Cygwin):

find mydata -mindepth 2 -name \*.txt | xargs svn revert

On Windows (use %%G in a batch file, %G on the command line):

FOR /R mydata %G IN (*.txt) DO svn revert "%G"

Strictly speaking, the Windows command will affect mydata/*.txt, mydata/*/*.txt, mydata/*/*/*.txt, and so on, so maybe it's not exactly what you're looking for... but maybe it's enough to get you there.

Answer 2

Are you using Linux or some other Unix variant which supports find? (Heck, it would probably be fine in cygwin too.) If so, try this:

svn revert `find mydata -name '*.txt'`

If you've got a lot of files you may need to use xargs instead.