How to quietly remove a directory with content in PowerShell

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Using PowerShell  is it possible to remove some directory that contains files without prompting to confirm action

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This worked for me   Remove-Item C  folder name -Force -Recurse

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in short  We can use rm -r -fo  folderName  to remove the folder recursively  remove all the files and folders inside  and force

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To delete content without a folder you can use the following   Remove-Item  foldertodelete    -Force -Recurse

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Below is a copy-pasteable implementation of Michael Freidgeim s answer  function Delete-FolderAndContents         http   stackoverflow com a 9012108      param           Parameter Mandatory  true  Position 1    string   folder path            process            child items     array   Get-ChildItem -Path  folder path -Recurse -Force           if   child items                 null    child items   Remove-Item -Force -Recurse                    null   Remove-Item  folder path -Force

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If you have your folder as an object  let s say that you created it in the same script using next command    folder   New-Item -ItemType Directory -Force -Path  c  tmp  -Name  myFolder    Then you can just remove it like this in the same script   folder Delete  true     true - states for recursive removal

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From PowerShell remove force answer   help Remove-Item says      The Recurse parameter in this cmdlet does not work properly   The command to workaround is  Get-ChildItem -Path  Destination -Recurse   Remove-Item -force -recurse   And then delete the folder itself  Remove-Item  Destination -Force

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rm -Force -Recurse -Confirm  false  directory2Delete didn t work in the PowerShell ISE  but it worked through the regular PowerShell CLI   I hope this helps  It was driving me bannanas

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LogPath    E      Your local of directories  Folders   Get-Childitem  LogPath -dir -r   Where-Object     name -like   grav      Your keyword name directories  foreach   Folder in  Folders          Item     Folder FullName     Write-Output  Item     Remove-Item  Item -Force -Recurse -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue

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Remove-Item -LiteralPath  foldertodelete  -Force -Recurse

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LogPath    E      Your local of directories  Folders   Get-Childitem  LogPath -dir -r   Where-Object     name -like   temp    foreach   Folder in  Folders          Item     Folder FullName     Write-Output  Item     Remove-Item  Item -Force -Recurse

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This worked for me   Remove-Item  folderPath -Force  -Recurse -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue   Thus the folder is removed with all files in there and it is not producing error if folder path doesn t exists

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Since my directory was in C  users I had to run my powershell as administrator    del    your Folder name  -Force -Recurse   this command worked for me

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If you want to concatenate a variable with a fixed path and a string as the dynamic path into a whole path to remove the folder  you may need the following command   fixPath    quot C  Users myUserName Desktop quot  Remove-Item   quot  fixPath quot     quot  Folder SubFolder quot   -Recurse  In the variable  newPath the concatenate path is now   quot C  Users myUserName Desktop Folder SubFolder quot  So you can remove several directories from the starting point   quot C  Users myUserName Desktop quot    which is already defined and fixed in the variable  fixPath   fixPath    quot C  Users myUserName Desktop quot  Remote-Item   quot  fixPath quot     quot  Folder SubFolder quot   -Recurse Remote-Item   quot  fixPath quot     quot  Folder SubFolder1 quot   -Recurse Remote-Item   quot  fixPath quot     quot  Folder SubFolder2 quot   -Recurse

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2018 Update  In the current version of PowerShell  tested with v5 1 on Windows 10 1809  one can use the simpler Unix syntax rm -R   DirName to silently delete the directory   DirName with all subdirectories and files it may contain  In fact many common Unix commands work in the same way in PowerShell as in a Linux command line

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