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I need to delete all folders in "tomin" folder, which name contains terminates with the ".delme" string. The deletion need to be done recurively: I mean on all directory and SUB directories.

I though to do this:

FOR /R tomin %%X IN (*.delme) DO (RD /S /Q "%%X")

but it does not work, I think /R ignores wildcards.

Before asking this question I searched also in SO and found this: but the answers did not help me in solving my issue, following the suggestion given there I tried:

FOR /F tomin "delims=" %%X IN ('dir /b /ad *.delme') DO RD /S /Q "%%X"

But it did not work either.

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  • Can you please post your full code to delete files. I am totally new to batch files. and I wan to delete all folder named as ".sass-cache" with all it's containts from all subfolders. Commented Nov 5, 2014 at 7:02
  • @SaurabhBayani: FOR /D /R yourfolder %%X IN .sass-cache DO RD /S /Q "%%X" Deletes all files and folders that finds into yourfolder and named .sass-cache Commented Nov 24, 2014 at 19:04

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Your first command would work, but you forgot the /D to specify that you want directories.

FOR /D /R tomin %%X IN (*.delme) DO RD /S /Q "%%X"

Should do the trick.

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