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rasuajak
rasuajak

Reputation: 53

Recursively find and delete a folder using batch file

I am trying to write a simple batch file which will recursively find and delete a folder. But the following script is not looking under sub folder. Wondering how to do that?

@echo off
cd /d "C:\"
for /d %%i in (temp) do rd /s "%%i"
pause

Thanks!

Upvotes: 5

Views: 8954

Answers (2)

MC ND
MC ND

Reputation: 70923

for /d /r "c:\" %%a in (temp\) do if exist "%%a" echo rmdir /s /q "%%a"

For each folder (/d), recursively (/r) under c:\ test for the presence of a temp folder and if it exist, remove it

directory removal command is only echoed to console. If the output is correct, remove the echo command

Upvotes: 13

Ken White
Ken White

Reputation: 125688

The /S switch to rd means

/S      Removes all directories and files in the specified directory
        in addition to the directory itself.  Used to remove a directory
        tree.

It does not mean it will search all directories looking for one with the specified name and delete them.

In other words, if you run rd /S Test from the C:\Temp folder, it will delete C:\Temp\Test\*.*, including all subdirectories (of any name) of C:\Temp\Test. It does not mean it will delete C:\Temp\AnotherDir\Test, because that isn't a subfolder of C:\Temp\Test.

Upvotes: 0

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