Delete files or folder recursively on Windows CMD

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How do I delete files or folders recursively on Windows from the command line   I have found this solution where path we drive on the command line and run this command   I have given an example with a  svn file extension folder   for  r  R in   svn  do if exist  R  rd  s  q   R

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If you want to delete a specific extension recursively  use this   For  R  C  Users Desktop saleh   G IN    ppt  do del   G

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Please execute the following steps    Open the command prompt Change directory to the required path Give the following command  del  S   svn

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dir  b  temp   gt temp list for  f  delims     a in  temp list  do call rundll32 exe advpack dll DelNodeRunDLL32   temp    a

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RMDIR path to folder  S   ex  RMDIR  C  tmp   S  Note that you ll be prompted if you re really going to delete the  C  tmp  folder  Combining it with  Q switch will remove the folder silently  ex  RMDIR  C  tmp   S  Q

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For file deletion  I wrote following simple batch file which deleted all  pdf s recursively   del  s  q    ad1pfrtg001 AppDev ResultLogs   pdf  del  s  q    ad1pfrtg001 Project AppData   pdf    Even for the local directory we can use it as   del  s  q  C  Project   pdf    The same can be applied for directory deletion where we just need to change del with rmdir

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For hidden files I had to use the following   DEL  S  Q  A H Thumbs db

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Use the Windows rmdir command  That is  rmdir  S  Q C  Temp     I m also using the ones below for some years now  flawlessly       Check out other options with  forfiles         Delete SQM Telemetry in windows folder recursively  forfiles  p  SYSTEMROOT  system32 LogFiles  s  m      d -1  c  cmd  c del  file        Delete windows TMP files recursively  forfiles  p  SYSTEMROOT  Temp  s  m      d -1  c  cmd  c del  file        Delete user TEMP files and folders recursively  forfiles  p  TMP   s  m      d -1  c  cmd  c del  file

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For completely wiping a folder with native commands and getting a log on what s been done   here s an unusual way to do it    let s assume we want to clear the d  temp dir  mkdir d  empty robocopy  mir d  empty d  temp rmdir d  empty

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You can use this in the bat script   rd  s  q  c  folder a    Now  just change c  folder a to your folder s location  Quotation is only needed when your folder name contains spaces

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You could also do   del  s  p    your extension here    The  p will prompt you for each found file  if you re nervous about deleting something you shouldn t

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The other answers didn t work for me  but this did   del  s  q   svn rmdir  s  q   svn    q disables Yes No prompting   s means delete the file s  from all subdirectories

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After the blog post How Can I Use Windows PowerShell to Delete All the  TMP Files on a Drive   you can use something like this to delete all  tmp for example from a folder and all subfolders in PowerShell   get-childitem  your path  or leave empty for current path  -include   tmp -recurse   foreach       remove-item    fullname

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