How to delete all files and folders in a folder by cmd call

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I use Windows   I want to delete all files and folders in a folder by system call   I may call like that    gt rd  s  q c  destination  gt md c  destination   Do you know an easier way

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Navigate to the parent directory

Line1 pushd "Parent Directory"

Delete the sub folders

Line2 rd /s /q . 2>nul

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It takes 2 simple steps     q means quiet   f means forced   s means subdir    Empty out the directory to remove   del      f s q    Remove the directory   cd    rmdir dir name  q s

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To delete file   del PATH TO FILE   To delete folder with all files in it   rmdir  s  q PATH TO FOLDER   To delete all files from specific folder  not deleting folder itself  is a little bit complicated  del  s     cannot delete folders  but removes files from all subfolder  So two commands are needed   del  q PATH TO FOLDER     for  d  i in  PATH TO FOLDER      do  rmdir  s  q   i    You can create a script to delete whatever you want  folder or file  like this mydel bat    echo off setlocal enableextensions  if    1            echo Usage   0 path     exit  b 1       check whether it is folder or file set ISDIR 0 set ATTR   a1 set DIRATTR  ATTR  0 1  if  i   DIRATTR     d  set ISDIR 1     Delete folder or file if  ISDIR   1  rmdir  s  q    1   else  del    1   exit  b  ERRORLEVEL    Few example of usage   mydel bat  path to folder with spaces  mydel bat path to file or folder

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If the subfolder names may contain spaces you need to surround them in escaped quotes  The following example shows this for commands used in a batch file   set targetdir c  example del  q  targetdir    for  d   x in   targetdir     do  rd  s  q     x

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I think the easiest way to do it is   rmdir  s  q  C  FolderToNotToDelete     The last     in the path is the important part

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Yes  Use Powershell   powershell -Command  Remove-Item  c  destination    -Recurse -Force

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No  I don t know one   If you want to retain the original directory for some reason  ACLs   amp c    and instead really want to empty it  then you can do the following   del  q destination   for  d  x in  destination    do  rd  s  q   x    This first removes all files from the directory  and then recursively removes all nested directories  but overall keeping the top-level directory as it is  except for its contents    Note that within a batch file you need to double the   within the for loop   del  q destination   for  d   x in  destination    do  rd  s  q    x

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I had an index folder with 33 folders that needed all the files and subfolders removed in them   I opened a command line in the index folder and then used these commands   for  d in     do rd  s  q   a   amp    md   a     I separated them into two lines  hit enter after first line  and when asked for more add second line  because if entered on a single line this may not work   This command will erase each directory and then create a new one which is empty  thus removing all files and subflolders in the original directory

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del      This Command delete all files  amp  folders from current navigation in your command line

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del c  destination      s  q worked for me   I hope that works for you as well

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try this  this will search all MyFolder under root dir and delete all folders named MyFolder for  d  r  quot C  Users test quot    a in  MyFolder   do if exist  quot   a quot  rmdir  s  q  quot   a quot

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One easy one-line option is to create an empty directory somewhere on your file system  and then use ROBOCOPY  http   technet microsoft com en-us library cc733145 aspx  with the  MIR switch to remove all files and subfolders   By default  robocopy does not copy security  so the ACLs in your root folder should remain intact   Also probably want to set a value for the retry switch   r  because the default number of retries is 1 million   robocopy  C  DoNotDelete UsedByScripts EmptyFolder   c  temp MyDirectoryToEmpty   MIR  r 3

[windows] How to delete all files and folders in a folder by cmd call

Line1 pushd "Parent Directory"

Line2 rd /s /q . 2>nul

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