Comments on: Delete Files and Folders Recursively Using Command Prompt

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 07:16:20 +0000

Thank you WIlbur, i had a large project that wasn’t properly exported from SVN and your solution solved my problem

By: WIlbur

WIlbur — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 14:19:00 +0000

Ok, ok, here ya go:

FOR /R %d IN (.svn) DO rmdir /s /q “%d”

By: WIlbur

WIlbur — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 14:11:08 +0000

This only deletes a folder in the current directory. The “/s” option includes the folder’s files, it does not recurse down the tree. I am hoping you’ll update this article to do the actually hard part of recursively removing ever folder under a root that matches the pattern.

By: Arjuna Krishna-Das

Arjuna Krishna-Das — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 14:10:54 +0000

I’m looking for a batch file solution which will delete all the CONTENTS of a folder (files and folders, recursively), but NOT the folder itself. I’ve been searching for hours but can’t find anything. The clunky solution would seem to be to delete the folder itself then recreate it with mkdir, but the folder is shared, and when I recreate it like this, it isn’t shared anymore. Any ideas?

By: joshuaslocum

joshuaslocum — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 10:28:34 +0000

rmdir is NOT recursive……

By: Keith Dsouza

Keith Dsouza — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:57:42 +0000

@gourab – The command mentioned above will delete all the sub-directories and files in a directory

Just use "rmdir /S directoryname" command

By: gourab

gourab — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 12:47:25 +0000

how will i delete a folder in command prompt having some data in it(means folder is not empty.)

By: Binny V A

Binny V A — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 17:26:51 +0000

In linux, the command to do this is rm -rf folder_name