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+#!/bin/bash
+
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+# contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+# this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+# The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+# (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+# the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+####
+
+# Convinience script to generates the SVN command line for you to run in order to 
+# remove old (arvhived) versions of the solr ref guide from the dist repo, and 
+# (if neccessary) clean up any old RC files.
+#
+# See: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/solr/Internal+-+How+To+Publish+This+Documentation
+
+if [ $# -ne 1 ] ; then
+    echo "Usage: $0 <X.Y>"
+    echo ""
+    echo "Where X.Y is the version of the ref guide that has recently been"
+    echo "published, and all previous versions have already been archived"
+    echo ""
+    echo "Example: "
+    echo "    $0 4.5"
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+VERSION="$1"
+DIST_PREFIX="apache-solr-ref-guide-$VERSION."
+
+DIST_DIR_URL="https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/lucene/solr/ref-guide"
+RC_DIR_URL="https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/lucene/solr/ref-guide"
+
+RM_OLD_CMD="svn rm -m 'removing archived ref guide files prior to $VERSION' "
+RM_RC_CMD="svn rm -m 'cleaning up old RCs now that $VERSION has been released' "
+
+NEW_COUNT=0
+OLD_COUNT=0
+RC_COUNT=0
+
+for FILE in `svn list $DIST_DIR_URL`; do
+  if [[ $FILE == $DIST_PREFIX* ]] ; then
+    NEW_COUNT=`expr $NEW_COUNT + 1`
+    continue # one of our just published files
+  fi
+  OLD_COUNT=`expr $OLD_COUNT + 1`
+  RM_OLD_CMD="$RM_OLD_CMD $DIST_DIR_URL/$FILE"
+done
+
+if [ $NEW_COUNT -eq 0 ] ; then
+   echo "FAIL: Unable to find any current (ie: $DIST_PREFIX*) release files in $DIST_DIR_URL"
+   exit -1;
+fi
+
+if [ $OLD_COUNT -eq 0 ] ; then
+   echo "FAIL: Unable to find any releases to clean up in $DIST_DIR_URL"
+   exit -1;
+fi
+
+for FILE in `svn list $RC_DIR_URL`; do
+  RC_COUNT=`expr $RC_COUNT + 1`
+  RM_RC_CMD="$RM_RC_CMD $RC_DIR_URL/$FILE"
+done
+
+echo "## Run the following commands when ready..."
+echo "# Delete old releases"
+echo $RM_OLD_CMD
+
+if [ $RC_COUNT -eq 0 ] ; then
+   echo "# No old RC files to clean up"
+else
+   echo "# Delete old RC files"
+   echo $RM_RC_CMD
+fi
+
+
+
+