Question

I have a folder ‘FolderA’ which contains three sub-folders: foldera1 foldera2 and foldera3

I need to write a batch file which resides inside ‘FolderA’. It should delete all the folders under ‘FolderA’ as a cleanup activity. I don’t know the folder names. rmdir does not support wild cards.

Could someone provide a solution for this small problem?

Answer 1

something like :

for /f %%a in ('dir /ad /b') do (rmdir /S /Q '%%a') for /d %%a in (*) do (rmdir /S /Q '%%a') 

should do the trick. The second form allow some wildcard selection for directories.

To test it outside a script, in a plain DOS session:

for /f %a in ('dir /ad /b') do (rmdir /S /Q '%a') for /d %a in (*) do (rmdir /S /Q '%a') 

Note the double quotes, in order to be able to delete directories with spaces in them.