Delete all files from a folder and its sub folders
This can be accomplished using PowerShell:
Get-ChildItem -Path C:\Temp -Include *.* -File -Recurse | foreach { $_.Delete()}
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
Get-ChildItem -Path C:\Temp -Include * -File -Recurse | foreach { $_.Delete()}
instead.
It appears the -File
parameter may have been added after PowerShell v2. If that's the case, then
Get-ChildItem -Path C:\Temp -Include *.* -Recurse | foreach { $_.Delete()}
It 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
Short and sweet PowerShell. Not sure what the lowest version of PS it will work with.
Remove-Item c:\Tmp\* -Recurse -Force
You can do so with del
command:
dir C:\folder
del /S *
The /S
switch is to delete only files recursively.