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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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

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

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

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Navigate to the parent directory Line1 pushd  quot Parent Directory quot  Delete the sub folders Line2 rd  s  q   2 gt nul https   superuser com questions 173859 how-can-i-delete-all-files-subfolders-in-a-given-folder-via-the-command-prompt

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

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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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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

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

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