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Piyush Soni
Piyush Soni

Reputation: 1416

Delete folders with wild cards from a batch file Windows 7

  1. I know we can write programs to do it.
  2. I know we can write other scripts (perl/vbscript/ etc.) to do it.

I am looking for a command prompt/batch file solution to delete all folders matching sub_* (like sub_1, sub_2 ... ) to be deleted. rmdir or rd doesn't support wildcards, and I'm not able to figure out how to pipe the output of dir sub_*/ad command to delete command one by one as well. Any loop syntax etc. I can use?

Upvotes: 9

Views: 17440

Answers (2)

JJS
JJS

Reputation: 6688

forfiles /P C:\where\my\dirs\at /M sub_* /C "cmd /c if @isdir==TRUE rmdir /s /q @file"

Upvotes: 1

Joey
Joey

Reputation: 354864

for /d %x in (sub_*) do rd /s /q "%x"

You need to double the % if used in a batch file:

for /d %%x in (sub_*) do rd /s /q "%%x"

Untested, make sure to first use echo or something else that doesn't immediately wipe the directories ;)

Upvotes: 22

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