CMD: Delete files/subfolders in a specific directory

Question

Hello,

Can someone help me with something I want to achieve in CMD?

Say, there is a variable called %pathtofolder%, and, as it makes clear; it is a full path to a folder.

Now, what i want to do is, to delete every single file and subfolder in this directory. But not the directory itself.

But, there might be an error like 'this file/folder is already in use'... when that happens, it should just continue and skip that file/folder.

Can anyone give me some code for this? Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

del %pathtofolder%\*.*   /s /f  /q

delete all files and subfolders in %pathtofolder% , including read-only files, do not prompt for confirmation

Answer 2

I am also using this, cleans up the folder temp folders that are created

FOR /D %%p IN ("C:\Temp\*.*") DO rmdir "%%p" /s /q