How to delete folders with a specific name but not the subfolders with that name with bat?

Question

I want to delete the maps Hoi and Hoi2 from \TestMap\Customer(x), however I do not want to delete Hoi1 and Hoi2 from TestMap\Ei.

File structure:

C:\TestMap\Customer1\Ei

C:\TestMap\Customer1\Ei\Hoi
C:\TestMap\Customer1\Ei\Hoi2

C:\TestMap\Customer1\Ham

C:\TestMap\Customer1\Hoi

C:\TestMap\Customer1\Hoi2

C:\TestMap\Customer1\Kaas

C:\TestMap\Customer1\Vis

Let's pretent that TestMap has another 100 folders from Customer1 to Customer 100 with all these same subfolders. So basically the script needs to run for every folder in TestMap.

I have found a code on StackOverflow, however this will delete ALL of the folders with a specific name, including subfolders.(Batch command to delete all subfolders with a specific name)

Anyone that might know to solution? Thanks in advance.

So you only want to delete C:\TestMap\hoi1 and C:\TestMap\hoi2 ? rd /q /s C:\TestMap\hoi1 & rd /q /s C:\TestMap\hoi2 — Ricardo Bohner, Nov 11 '19 at 10:04
You want to delete all hoi and hoi2 Folders except the ones that are in "Ei" parent folders? — Ricardo Bohner, Nov 11 '19 at 10:38

Gerhard · Accepted Answer · 2019-11-11T10:54:11.250

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You could just loop with for /d check if exist and delete:

@echo off
for /d %%i in ("%userprofile%\Desktop\TestMap\*") do (
   if exist "%%~i\hoi\" rd /s /q "%%~i\hoi"
   if exist "%%~i\hoi2\" rd /s /q "%%~i\hoi2"
)
pause

edited Nov 11 '19 at 10:54

answered Nov 11 '19 at 10:39

Gerhard

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How to delete folders with a specific name but not the subfolders with that name with bat?

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