Question

I want to clean up my binary files in my development directory. Is there a way I can recurse through the directory structure and delete all files that are in a bin directory using the Windows command line? (I am using Windows 7.)

Per Nathan, I tried to make a batch foo.bat:

@ECHO OFF 
for /R %%x in (.) do call:myExistFunc %%x 
GOTO:EOF 
:myExistFunc 
if exist %~1\.\bin call:myDeleteFunc %%~1\bin 
GOTO:EOF 
:myDeleteFunc 
echo. Deleting files from %~1 
del %~1*.* /Q

…and this worked.

Answer 1

Create a batch file that contains the following:

for /R %%x in (bin) DO del "%%x\\*.*" /Q

This will recursively walk through all child directories (from the current directory) and delete all files from every BIN folder. You could change the *.* to whatever file type you’d like to delete.