Script to Delete Files and folders within a folder

[AlexB]

Lol, guess Steve beat me too! Damn me for testing first!

[doddsworthy]

Thanks for those posts guys the script that "srochford" "Steve21" and "AlexB" worked a treat thanks very much for those guys. been a great help

[Zoom7000]

If you want this just as a batch script then you could use

@echo off

for /f "delims=" %%j in ( ' dir /b /ad' ) do del /f /s /q %%j

for /f "delims=" %%j in ( ' dir /b /ad' ) do for /f "delims=" %%i in ( ' dir %%j /b /ad' ) do rd /s /q "%%j\%%i"

This will first delete all files in all sub directories and then it deletes all sub folders too (I couldn't find a command to do both at the same time)

so if you had for example a folder structure:-

D
--users
----y2010
------pupil1
------pupil2
----y2009
------pupil3
------pupil4
----y2008
------pupil5
------pupil6

If you ran the batch file from inside each of the y2010, y2009 and y2008 folders then it would go into each sub folder (e.g. pupil1, 2, etc...) and empty both files and folders while leaving the pupil1, pupil2 folders in place.

Obviously you need to be very careful with a batch file like this... running it in the wrong place could be bad

Thanks for this! Worked exactly as I wanted it to!