Question

I need to delete all the folders in current directory that starts with say “foo” followed by date
for example we have

1. foo20120620
2. foo20120513
3. fooblabla

I can successfully delete one folder that matches current date
example

set FOO_FOLDER=%CD%\foo%datetimef%      

echo Y | rd /s/q %FOO_FOLDER%     

But I’m not able to delete all the folders starting with foo.

I have been tried something like

set OLD_PATTERN="%CD%\foo"     
del %OLD_PATTERN%*

I have googled and tried to follow some questions already being asked in this forum , but those doesn’t help me a lot.

Any suggestion will be of great help to me.
must be in batch scripting on windows side.

Answer 1

You could use the FOR /D command.

for /d %%p in (foo*) do rd /s /q "%%p"