DOS command to delete subfolders

[Guest]

This is probably a simple question, but does anyone know a DOS command to
completely clear out a folder's contents (including the subfolders
themselves)? With Win 2000, I gave up and deleted the folder and recreated
the folder. However I can't seem to even do that in Windows XP Pro. Prior to
Win 2000 I would have used deltree. Any ideas?

Thanks,
Nick

 

[Will Denny]

Hi Nick

Type the following from a command prompt

rmdir /?

 

[Steve N.]

This is probably a simple question, but does anyone know a DOS command to
completely clear out a folder's contents (including the subfolders
themselves)? With Win 2000, I gave up and deleted the folder and recreated
the folder. However I can't seem to even do that in Windows XP Pro. Prior to
Win 2000 I would have used deltree. Any ideas?

Thanks,
Nick

RMDIR /S

steve

 

[Alex Nichol]

This is probably a simple question, but does anyone know a DOS command to
completely clear out a folder's contents (including the subfolders
themselves)?

Del has an /S switch to propagate to subdirectories, so
DEL /S Folder\*.*
will delete everything in Folder and its subdirectories

 

[Terry]

This is probably a simple question, but does anyone know a DOS command to
completely clear out a folder's contents (including the subfolders
themselves)?

Del has an /S switch to propagate to subdirectories, so
DEL /S Folder\*.*
will delete everything in Folder and its subdirectories
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Using DEL /S d:\temp\*.* will remove all files in d:\temp, but will
leave the subfolders but will delete everything in them. RMDIR will
remove the d:\temp folder and all the subfolders so you have to include
a command to recreate the d:\temp.

It was one of the reasons I copy DELTREE over to most client XP machines.

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[Guest]

Thanks to all that answered! rmdir will definitely work!

Del has an /S switch to propagate to subdirectories, so
DEL /S Folder\*.*
will delete everything in Folder and its subdirectories

Using DEL /S d:\temp\*.* will remove all files in d:\temp, but will
leave the subfolders but will delete everything in them. RMDIR will
remove the d:\temp folder and all the subfolders so you have to include
a command to recreate the d:\temp.

It was one of the reasons I copy DELTREE over to most client XP machines.
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