How to quietly remove a directory with content in PowerShell

2018 Update

In the current version of PowerShell (tested with v5.1 on Windows 10 1809) one can use the simpler Unix syntax rm -R .\DirName to silently delete the directory .\DirName with all subdirectories and files it may contain. In fact many common Unix commands work in the same way in PowerShell as in a Linux command line.

One can also clean up a folder, but not the folder itself, using rm -R .\DirName\* (noted by Jeff in the comments).

This worked for me:

Remove-Item $folderPath -Force  -Recurse -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue

Thus the folder is removed with all files in there and it is not producing error if folder path doesn't exists.

From PowerShell remove force answer: help Remove-Item says:

The Recurse parameter in this cmdlet does not work properly

The command to workaround is

Get-ChildItem -Path $Destination -Recurse | Remove-Item -force -recurse

And then delete the folder itself

Remove-Item $Destination -Force 

Remove-Item -LiteralPath "foldertodelete" -Force -Recurse