Probably a simple DOS question

snagrat · 2 Jan 2007 at 17:56

Right....I have a structure soething like this:

d:\Users\Pupils\<name>

There are about 200 names probably and I want to delete every file/folder within each name. Basically I'm deleting all the work but don't really want to have to recreate any shares so instead of deleting the whole folder I want to just delete the stuff inside.

Now I know I can use the DEL command to delete everything but from what I can see only one folder at a time.

Is there a way to delete everything without deleting the root folders?

MehulLakhani · 2 Jan 2007 at 19:04

This can be done very easily with a file manager for DOS - best bet is xtree gold.

Dont know how you would get hold of it these days though . . . .

testa12 · 2 Jan 2007 at 19:06

just use DEL /S

edit - Sorry, I see you want to remove sub folders from each root folder. Best bet is to script it.

lordedmond · 2 Jan 2007 at 19:13

here you go Linky

snagrat · 2 Jan 2007 at 19:19

testa12 said:
just use DEL /S

edit - Sorry, I see you want to remove sub folders from each root folder. Best bet is to script it.

May just do this anyway and keep the folders.

Will look at scripts now as for some reason that jump my mind.

Will also look into xtree. Thanks

bitslice · 2 Jan 2007 at 21:27

seems a bit overkill to script it. (...he says, while already thinking of how to do it

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search root folder for *.*
select all files, press delete
select all subfolders, press delete

10 seconds, job done.

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