Question

I’m trying find a way to delete a specific folder name and delete all of its contents in Windows. So my D: drive has a 100 folders, inside each of these folders are sub folders called folder1, folder2, folder3, etc. I want to be able to run a command at the root of D: that will search through each 100 folders and delete say folder3, and folder9 and all of its contents.

RD /s /q "folder1" 

The above command doesnt like to search through subdirectories.

Anyway of doing with with CMD or do I need a .vbs script or something?

Thanks!

Answer 1

You can use the FOR command to go through the list of subfolders from a given location and run commands on each subfolder. e.g.:

for /F "delims=\" %%I in ('dir /ad /b <someFolder>') DO (
    cd "<someFolder>\%%I"
    rd /S /Q "folder1"
    rd /S /Q "folder3"
)

It would get the list of folders in someFolder, and delete the directories named “folder1” and “folder3” from each subfolder.