Delete a very, very deep tree of subdirectories on windows?
Install Git Bash or some other form of linux shell emulator. Works perfectly without any hassle.
rm -rf /c/offending/dir
Are you just trying to delete the directory and all subdirectories? RMDIR /S /Q [dirname]
from a command prompt should do the trick.
Update Try this as a workaround:
At the top level of the problem directory, create another directory called 'dummy_dir'
Run
robocopy dummy_dir problem_dir /purge
Thanks to Meghraj Choudhary for the script to delete the files on windows. https://github.com/dev-mraj/fdel
He claims it shortens the path and thus help to delete them Helpful for node developers
npm install fdel -g
fdel ./node_modules