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What I'm trying to do is find all the folders named "temp" on local disk C and then delete all files and subfolders that are inside it, but I don't know how to delete it, I only managed to get to the part of finding all folders and put them in the variable, but I don't know the correct code to delete. Help.

@echo off
setlocal
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
@echo off
for /d /r "c:\" %%i in (temp) do (
@if exist "%%i" (
@set _variable=%%i
@echo !_variable!
)
)
endlocal
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@echo off && setlocal enabledelayedexpansion

cd /d "C:\" && for /f tokens^=* %%i in ('dir /s /b /a:d "temp"')do (
   echo\ Current Folder: "%%~i"
   echo\ RmDir /q /s "%%~i"
   echo\ MkDir "%%~i"
  )

%__APPDIR__%\Timeout.exe /t -1 & endlocal & goto :EOF

1) Go to the drive:

cd /d "C:\"

2) Use For /f with dir /s /b /a:d instead For /D /R

 for /f tokens^=* %%i in ('dir /s /b /a:d "temp"')do...

3) Don't need to delete the files in the target folder, just remove this folder and recreate it again...

RmDir /q /s "%%~i" && MkDir "%%~i\*"
  • Outputs look like this:
Current Folder: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Temp"
rmdir /q /s "C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Temp"
mkdir "C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Temp\"
Current Folder: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\temp"
rmdir /q /s "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\temp"
mkdir "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\temp\"
Current Folder: "C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp"
rmdir /q /s "C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp"
mkdir "C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\"
Current Folder: "C:\Users\All Users\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp"
rmdir /q /s "C:\Users\All Users\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp"
mkdir "C:\Users\All Users\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\"
Current Folder: "C:\Users\Default\AppData\Local\Temp"
rmdir /q /s "C:\Users\Default\AppData\Local\Temp"
mkdir "C:\Users\Default\AppData\Local\Temp\"
Current Folder: "C:\Users\ecker\AppData\Local\Temp"
rmdir /q /s "C:\Users\ecker\AppData\Local\Temp"
mkdir "C:\Users\ecker\AppData\Local\Temp\"
Current Folder: "C:\Users\ecker\AppData\Local\Intel\CUIPromotions\Temp"
rmdir /q /s "C:\Users\ecker\AppData\Local\Intel\CUIPromotions\Temp"
mkdir "C:\Users\ecker\AppData\Local\Intel\CUIPromotions\Temp\"
Current Folder: "C:\Users\ecker\AppData\Local\Packages\windows_ie_ac_001\AC\Temp"
rmdir /q /s "C:\Users\ecker\AppData\Local\Packages\windows_ie_ac_001\AC\Temp"
mkdir "C:\Users\ecker\AppData\Local\Packages\windows_ie_ac_001\AC\Temp\"
Current Folder: "C:\Windows\Temp"
rmdir /q /s "C:\Windows\Temp"
mkdir "C:\Windows\Temp\"
Current Folder: "C:\Windows\assembly\temp"
rmdir /q /s "C:\Windows\assembly\temp"
mkdir "C:\Windows\assembly\temp\"
mkdir "C:\Windows\assembly\NativeImages_v4.0.30319_64\Temp\"
Current Folder: "C:\Windows\System32\DriverStore\Temp"
rmdir /q /s "C:\Windows\System32\DriverStore\Temp"
mkdir "C:\Windows\System32\DriverStore\Temp\"
Current Folder: "C:\Windows\WinSxS\Temp"
rmdir /q /s "C:\Windows\WinSxS\Temp"
mkdir "C:\Windows\WinSxS\Temp\"
  • Verify in your test the outputs and for effective execution, remove echo in:
@echo off && setlocal enabledelayedexpansion

cd /d "C:\" && for /f tokens^=* %%i in ('dir /s /b /a:d "temp"')do (
   echo\ Current Folder: "%%~i"
   echo\ RmDir /q /s "%%~i"
   echo\ MkDir "%%~i"
  )

%__APPDIR__%\Timeout.exe /t -1 & endlocal & goto :EOF
  • Or use this short option to suppress a possible error message for any folder in use or some other type of error 
@echo off 

setlocal enabledelayedexpansion && cd /d "C:\"
for /f "tokens=*" %%i in ('dir /s /b /a:d "temp"
')do 2>nul >nul (RmDir /q /s "%%~i" && MkDir "%%~i")
"%__APPDIR__%\Timout.exe" -1 & endlocal & goto :EOF
  • And, of course, a slightly smaller option...
@echo off 

cd/d "C:\" & setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
for /f tokens^=* %%i in ('dir/s/b/a:d "temp"
')do 2>nul (RmDir /q /s "%%~i" && MD "%%~i")
"%__APPDIR__%\Timeout.exe" /t -1 && endlocal

For command line help, you can use /?:

RmDir /?, For /?, MkDir /?, Endlocal /?, SetLocal /?

On the internet, you can get more help on:

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