Recursively remove all .svn directories

find . -name .svn -print0 | xargs -0 rm -rf

Courtesy of http://codesnippets.joyent.com/posts/show/104

Apply multiple patches at once

cd /path/to/source
for i in /path/to/patches/*.patch; do patch -p1 < $i; done


Courtesy of http://serverfault.com/questions/102324/apply-multiple-patch-files/102328#102328