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It deleted most of the files within the temp folder but left all subfolders and files within. I have since figured out how to delete the files within the subfolders. I still need to figure out how to suppress everything from showing on the screen to the user and to also delete everything from the windows temp folder.
I want to remove all files from a folder structure, so I'm left with an empty folder structure.
Can this be achieved in either batch or VBScript scripting?
I have tried a very basic batch command, but this required the user to allow the deletion of each file. This wasn't a suitable solution as there are many hundreds of files and this will increase massively over time.
What can you suggest?
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How To Zip Files In A Folder
This can be accomplished using PowerShell:
This command gets each child item in
$path
, executes the delete method on each one, and is quite fast. The folder structure is left intact.If you may have files without an extension, use
instead.
It appears the
-File
parameter may have been added after PowerShell v2. If that's the case, thenIt should do the trick for files that have an extension.
If it does not work, check if you have an up-to-date version of Powershell
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MDMoore313MDMoore313
You can do so with
del
command:The
phoopsphoops/S
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Short and suite PowerShell. Not sure what the lowest version of PS it will work with.
Evan NadeauEvan Nadeau
Reading between the lines on your original question I can offer an alternative BATCH code line you can use. What this will do when ran is only delete files that are over 60 days old. This way you can put this in a scheduled task and when it runs it deletes the excess files that you don't need rather than blowing away the whole directory. You can change 60 to 5 days or even 1 day if you wanted to. This does not delete folders.
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Use PowerShell to Delete a Single File or Folder. Before executing the Delete command in powershell we need to make sure you are logged in to the server or PC with an account that has full access to the objects you want to delete.
Remove-Item -Path 'C:dotnet-helpersDummyfiletoDelete.txt'
The above command will execute and delete the “DummyfiletoDelete.txt” file which present inside the “C:dotnet-helpers” location.
Remove-Item -Path 'C:dotnet-helpers*.*'
Remove-Item -Path 'C:dotnet-helpers*.*' -recurse
-recurse
drills down and finds lots more files. The –recurse
parameter will allow PowerShell to remove any child items without asking for permission. Additionally, the –force parameter can be added to delete hidden or read-only files.Using -Force command to delete files forcefully
Remove-Item -Path 'C:dotnet-helpers*.*' -Force
thiyagu selvarajthiyagu selvaraj
Try this using PowerShell. In this example I want to delete all the .class files:
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BoubakrBoubakr
- In Windows Explorer select the root dir containing all the files and folders.
- Search for *
- Sort by Type (All the folders will be at the top and all the files listed underneath)
- Select all the files and press Delete.
This will delete all the files and preserve the directory structure.
EmelEmel
Delete all files from current directory and sub-directories but leaving the folders structure.
(
/Q
) switch is for asking the user if he is ok to deleteCaution : try it without the
/Q
to make sure you are not deleting anything precious.hdoghmenhdoghmen
This is the easiest way IMO
Open PowerShell, navigate to the directory (
cd
), THEN(Poof) everything is gone..
If you want to delete based on a specific extension
ls
is listing the directory-Recurse
is a flag telling powershell to go into any sub directoriesMechanical engineering pdf download.
*
says everything*.doc
everything with .doc extension|
feed the output from the left to the rightrm
deleteAll the other answers appear to make this more confusing than necessary.
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As a complement to the above answers, actually there's no need to use the Get-Childitem and pass the result to the pipeline in the above answers, because the -Include keyword is included in the Remove-Item command
One can simply:
Remove-Item -Include '.' 'C:Temp' -Recurse
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