Good morning. I want to delete all the FOLDERS of the same NAME and SUB-FOLDERS of the SAME NAME (Excuse redundancy) of a hard drive of 2 petabytes but obviously there are too many FOLDERS to review.
The name of the folder is "namex". It is in more than 2 million folders also in subfolders and I want to Delete all of them by Batch code.
I imagine it's something like this:
del /s/e "C:\" nombrex
Please, if anyone can help me with this topic.
Here is a way to do it found at SO englisch
for /d /r "C:\carpeta inicial" %d in (nombrex) do @if exist "%d" rd /s/q "%d"
But first try with an echo to not erase things that are not
for /d /r "C:\carpeta inicial" %d in (nombrex) do @if exist "%d" echo "%d"
Example:
for /d /r "D:\mnt\web" %d in (node_modules) do @if exist "%d" echo "%d"
C:\ drive is used by your computer and not by external hard drives.
First it indicates to position you in the directory of the drive (as example E: \) and later it deletes its content, it will ask for confirmation:
cd E:\TEMP
del *.*
But you can have subdirectories and content inside them, so this is the correct way to remove the contents of these directories.
cd E:\TEMP
del *.* /s /f /q
If you want to delete all the content, including files and directories , it's done like this:
rmdir /s /q E:\TEMP