I have tried to delete the temp files and display the deleted file and read only file names.
The below code i used for deleting the files and displaying the read only files.
#echo off
cd %temp%
for /d %%D in (*) do rd /s /q "%%D"
del /f /q *
del /f /q
but for me after deleting the files it should list and display the deleted file names.i guess we have to create some object/variable and store the file names.
is there any option to get it stored the file names and get it later?
This will list your readonly files.
for /f tokens^=* %i in ('robocopy /l /e /xa:R %temp% "nothing ..//" /njh /ndl /ns /nc /pf /njs')do #echo %i
Try moving everything to a seperate folder first and then
dir /b /path/to/folder
to get the files you are able to delete and
dir /b %tmp%
to get the files you are unable to delete.
i've engaged with work in batch script.these things i need to do
1.i want to find the folder say like "name" in particular directory
ex:
c:\test\name
c:\test\b\name
c:\test\n\c\name
2.in the name folder, need to delete all sub folders and files and all which is more than 90 days.
i have changed my question now please give me an idea...
#ECHO OFF
SETLOCAL
SET "targetdir=U:\destdir"
ECHO(DEL "%targetdir%\*?*"
FOR /f "delims=" %%a IN (
'dir /b /ad "%targetdir%\*" '
) DO (
ECHO(RD /S /Q "%%~a"
)
GOTO :EOF
You would need to change the setting of targetdir to suit your circumstances. It could of course be replaced by a literal if you wish.
The required RD commands are merely ECHOed for testing purposes. After you've verified that the commands are correct, change ECHO(RD to RD to actually delete the directories.
The required DEL commands are merely ECHOed for testing purposes. After you've verified that the commands are correct, change ECHO(DEL to DEL to actually delete the files.
the del and for commands could be cascaded with a & if required. The for is spread across a nuber of lines for clarity.
You're missing an asterisk * so that the folder set expands to all subdirectories of the _delete folder. Also, the /D /R construct seems unnecessary on second thought, because RD /S does already take care of deleting directories recursively.
FOR /D %%A IN ( folder_you_want_to_clean\* ) DO IF EXIST "%%A" RD /S /Q "%%A"
But it won't delete the files in the folder_you_want_to_clean folder itself, though. Do that with the DEL command - the /Q option suppresses the confirmation prompt, just like with the RD command:
DEL /Q folder_you_want_to_clean\*
Concrete example: Suppose the folder you want to clean is C:\data\oldstuff. Then just do:
FOR /D %%A IN ( C:\data\oldstuff\* ) DO IF EXIST "%%A" RD /S /Q "%%A"
All directories contained in C:\data\oldstuff will be gone (and of course, any files in those directories). But any files in C:\data\oldstuff itself will still be there! So to delete those as well, do:
DEL /Q C:\data\oldstuff\*
I want to have a batch file that will delete all the folders and files in my cache folder for my wireless toolkit.
Currently I have the following:
cd "C:\Users\tbrollo\j2mewtk\2.5.2\appdb\RMS"
del *.db
This will delete all .db files in my RMS directory, however I want to delete every single thing from this directory. How can I do this?
Use:
Create a batch file
Copy the below text into the batch file
set folder="C:\test"
cd /d %folder%
for /F "delims=" %%i in ('dir /b') do (rmdir "%%i" /s/q || del "%%i" /s/q)
It will delete all files and folders.
del *.* instead of del *.db. That will remove everything.
IF EXIST "C:\Users\tbrollo\j2mewtk\2.5.2\appdb\RMS" (
rmdir "C:\Users\tbrollo\j2mewtk\2.5.2\appdb\RMS" /s /q
)
This will delete everything from the folder (and the folder itself).
I just put this together from what morty346 posted:
set folder="C:\test"
IF EXIST "%folder%" (
cd /d %folder%
for /F "delims=" %%i in ('dir /b') do (rmdir "%%i" /s/q || del "%%i" /s/q)
)
It adds a quick check that the folder defined in the variable exists first, changes directory to the folder, and deletes the contents.
del *.* will only delete files, but not subdirectories. To nuke the contents of a directory, you can use this script:
#echo off
setlocal enableextensions
if {%1}=={} goto :HELP
if {%1}=={/?} goto :HELP
goto :START
:HELP
echo Usage: %~n0 directory-name
echo.
echo Empties the contents of the specified directory,
echo WITHOUT CONFIRMATION. USE EXTREME CAUTION!
goto :DONE
:START
pushd %1 || goto :DONE
rd /q /s . 2> NUL
popd
:DONE
endlocal
The pushd changes into the directory of which you want to delete the children. Then when rd asks to delete the current directory and all sub directories, the deletion of the sub directories succeed, but the deletion of the current directory fails - because we are in it. This produces an error which 2> NUL swallows. (2 being the error stream).
You can do this using del and the /S flag (to tell it to recurse all files from all subdirectories):
del /S C:\Path\to\directory\*
The RD command can also be used. Recursively delete quietly without a prompt:
#RD /S /Q %VAR_PATH%
Rmdir (rd)
set "DIR_TO_DELETE=your_path_to_the_folder"
IF EXIST %DIR_TO_DELETE% (
FOR /D %%p IN ("%DIR_TO_DELETE%\*.*") DO rmdir "%%p" /S /Q
del %DIR_TO_DELETE%\*.* /F /Q
)
Use
set dir="Your Folder Path Here"
rmdir /s %dir%
mkdir %dir%
This version deletes without asking:
set dir="Your Folder Here"
rmdir /s /q %dir%
mkdir %dir%
Example:
set dir="C:\foo1\foo\foo\foo3"
rmdir /s /q %dir%
mkdir %dir%
This will clear C:\foo1\foo\foo\foo3.
(I would like to mention Abdullah Sabouin's answer. There was a mix up about me copying him. I did not notice his post. I would like to thank you melpomene for pointing out errors!)
Try the following; it works for me.
I have an application which dumps data in my "C:\tmp" folder, and the following works the best for me. It doesn't even ask Yes or No to delete the data. I have made a schedule for it to run after every 5 minutes
cd "C:\tmp"
del *.* /Q
Better yet, let's say I want to remove everything under the C:\windows\temp folder.
#echo off
rd C:\windows\temp /s /q
You could use robocopy to mirror an empty folder to the folder you are clearing.
robocopy "C:\temp\empty" "C:\temp\target" /E /MIR
It also works if you can't remove or recreate the actual folder.
It does require an existing empty directory.
I would like to suggest using simple tool like cleardir. So, in batch file you can write:
cleardir path/to/dir
And you'll get empty directory dir. A bit slow, but still resolves the "problem".
I'm an author of the tool =)
The easiest way is:
Create *.txt file
Write:
rmdir /q /s . dir
Save file as *.bat in folder which you want to clear (you can call the file NUKE.bat)
Turn it on
WARNING!
THIS DELETES EVERYTHING IN THE FOLDER WHERE IT IS WITHOUT ASKING FOR CONFIRMATION!!!
SO CHOOSE WISELY PLACE FOR SAVING IT.
Easy simple answer :
C:
del /S /Q C:\folderName\otherFolderName\*
C: Important in case you have to switch from D: to C: or C: to D: (or anything else)
/S Recursive, all subfolders are deleted along
/Q If you don't activate quiet mode, prompt will ask you to type y for every subfolders... you don't want that
Be carful, it's drastic.
You cannot delete everything with either rmdir or del alone:
rmdir /s /q does not accept wildcard params. So rmdir /s /q * will error.
del /s /f /q will delete all files, but empty subdirectories will remain.
My preferred solution (as I have used in many other batch files) is:
rmdir /s /q . 2>NUL
Just a modified version of GregM's answer:
set folder="C:\test"
cd /D %folder%
if NOT %errorlevel% == 0 (exit /b 1)
echo Entire content of %cd% will be deleted. Press Ctrl-C to abort
pause
REM First the directories /ad option of dir
for /F "delims=" %%i in ('dir /b /ad') do (echo rmdir "%%i" /s/q)
REM Now the files /a-d option of dir
for /F "delims=" %%i in ('dir /b /a-d') do (echo del "%%i" /q)
REM To deactivate simulation mode remove the word 'echo' before 'rmdir' and 'del'.
#echo off
#color 0A
echo Deleting logs
rmdir /S/Q c:\log\
ping 1.1.1.1 -n 5 -w 1000 > nul
echo Adding log folder back
md c:\log\
You was on the right track. Just add code to add the folder which is deleted back again.
I'm trying to delete all .svn folders ONLY if they are in a CVS folder. The pattern should be something like this "*CVS\.svn".
However, my attempts at writing a batch script at this is not working at the moment. Here is what I have so far although it doesn't work.
FOR /D /R %%X IN (*CVS\.svn) DO RD /S /Q "%%X"
or
FOR /R CVS %%X IN (.svn) DO (RD /S /Q "%%X")
This works if you start one level higher than the "CVS" directory (it's a little more complex otherwise):
for /f %d in ('dir /a:d /b /s CVS') do (
if exist "%d\.svn\." rd /s /q "%d\.svn"
)
The first line finds all the directories named "CVS" recursively, then the second deletes the sub-directory ".svn" if it exists. If you're running it from a batch/shell script, use %%d instead of %d.
I have the directory structure /foo/bar/fooBar/.. . I want to write a Windows command where I can mention the path till foo directory and it deletes all the files and directory recursively in /foo, but it should NOT delete the foo directory.
I have been using rmdir /q /s [path to foo] but this command deletes the foo directory as well. Let me know if there is any command(s) to accomplish this.
rd /s /q /path/to/foo
md /path/to/foo
del /f /s /q DirectoryWhichContainsFilesToDelete/\*
This will delete all files in the folder DirectoryWhichContainsFilesToDelete without deleting the folder itself.
Have fun :)
I had been scratching my head on this one as well. It is easy enough to create a for loop that uses rmdir however it leaves behind folders that have spaces in the long names. It is possible to manipulate a dir list and get the 8.3 filenames however here is a much simpler solution.
Create an empty folder then;
robocopy \empty_folder \folder_with_sub_folders /PURGE
All subfolders & files will be deleted.
del X /f /s /q
rd X /s /q
this WILL remove the ROOt directory though. make it again with
md X
or make a copy of it first.
otherwise you'll have to do batch funkiness
dir X /ad /b
will give you a list of the immediate subdirectories of X. you can work out the rest
I was looking for a simple command to delete all files in a directory recursively but leaving the directory structure unchanged. So, maybe this could be interesting ;)
for /f "delims=" %i in ('dir /B /S /A:-DH') do #del /F /Q /A:H "%i"
The command 'dir /B /S /A:-D' lists only files (/A:-D) in current directory recursively (/S) without 'dir' summary report (/B). The 'for' loops through each full line (/delims=) and executes the delete command, forced and quiet. I additionally used the hidden flag (/H) both for listing and deletion for some mysterious (e.g. thumbs.db) files.
deltree /foo/* should work fine.
I have used this in a batch file in the past. It uses a for loop to navigate the directory structure.
Here I remove the cvs sub directories off of a tree, needed when copying from one branch to another.
#echo off
if /I exist CVS. rd CVS /s /q >nul
for /F %%z in ('dir cvs /ad /s /b') do echo %%z && rd /s /q %%z
echo Batchfile %0 is complete
Try to use Powershell:
powershell -Command "Remove-Item '\foo\*' -Recurse -Force"
To prevent deleting of the foo directory try change directory to foo prior to the delete such as:
cd c:\foo
rd /s /q c:\foo
This will delete all the files and folders under foo but NOT foo. An error message will be displayed as follow "The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process."