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windowsbatch-filecmddirectory
FringeDc
FringeDc

Reputation: 85

Windows script delete specific subfolders inside a path

I need your help for writing a little batch script in order to delete specific named folders inside a path.

Let's image we have multiple folders called "pippo" inside the path tree "C:\Users\myUser\Desktop\StartFolder"

How can I write a script that browses all the folder tree of that path and delete all fsubolders called "pippo" ?

Thanks!

I found this command in other site for /d /r "%d" %d in (_svn) do @if exist "%d" rmdir "%d"

So I tried to adapt it to my target, but it doesn't work. for /d /r "C:\Users\myUser\Desktop\StartFolder" "pippo" in (_svn) do @if exist "pippo" rmdir "pippo"

Upvotes: 0

Views: 125

Answers (1)

user6811411
user6811411

Reputation:

It's unclear to me what the _svn is meant for in your tries.
( or is _svn your real pippo ?)

for /r "C:\Users\myUser\Desktop\StartFolder" /d %%A in (pippo
     ) do if exist "%%~fA" echo rmdir "%%~fA"

If the output looks OK, remove the echo in front of rmdir

Sample output on my test tree:

> for /r "q:\Test\2018" /D %A in (05) do @if exist "%~fA" @echo rd "%~fA"
rd "q:\Test\2018\05"
rd "q:\Test\2018\04\05"
rd "q:\Test\2018\05\05"

Upvotes: 1

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