Windows: Deleting folder common in multiple sub-folders

Question

Is there a way to do this? I have a folder structure as such:

A/
    Folder/
B/
    Folder/
C/
    Folder/
D/
    Folder/

And I want to delete all of the "Folder/"s, along with all of their contents. My first guess was

rmdir /S /Q *\Folder

but received an error on the *. This has come up a few times in the past days, so I figured I'd get the more efficient way than going into each folder, because that wasn't fun.

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 21 '14 at 08:01

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Have you try this ?

for /D %i in ("C:\Directory\*") do RD /S /Q "%i"

Put double % if you want to do this in batch file

answered Mar 21 '14 at 08:01

TheMightyX2Y

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This doesn't cater for the 'common' folders in a tree. – foxidrive Mar 24 '14 at 06:17

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 24 '14 at 06:20

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This should display the rd command for every directory that matches the folde? filespec under the current tree.

The wildcard is necessary so check the output before removing the echo

@echo off
for /d /r %%a in (folde?) do echo rd /s /q "%%a"
pause

answered Mar 24 '14 at 06:20

foxidrive

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Windows: Deleting folder common in multiple sub-folders

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