Comments on: Uninstalling subversion (or any package you’ve compiled manually)

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By: panzi

panzi — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:02:32 +0000

You should change the last 2 commands to:

cat svnfilelist | awk ‘{print $12;}’ > svnfilenames
cat svnfilenames | while read name; do if [ -f "$name" ]; then echo “$name”; fi; done > svnfilenames2
cat svnfilenames2 | xargs sudo rm -rf

This filters out the directories because directories like /usr/bin could end up in the list, too!