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hugo7

Struggling with search terms for this on Google.

In W10 there is a parent(?) folder with files and subfolders some of which have more subfolders. I regularly need to delete all the files inside but keep all the folders.

Is there an easy way to do this?

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Greenbank in reply to @hugo7

From the command-line, yes.

MAKE SURE YOU ARE IN THE RIGHT TOP LEVEL DIRECTORY.

Here's a bunch of files:-

C:\Users\alex\test>dir /b /s
C:\Users\alex\test\a
C:\Users\alex\test\b
C:\Users\alex\test\foo.txt
C:\Users\alex\test\a\b
C:\Users\alex\test\a\foo.txt
C:\Users\alex\test\a\b\more.txt
C:\Users\alex\test\b\foo.txt

Use del /s /q *.txt to delete the text files:-

C:\Users\alex\test>del /s /q *.txt
Deleted file - C:\Users\alex\test\foo.txt
Deleted file - C:\Users\alex\test\a\foo.txt
Deleted file - C:\Users\alex\test\a\b\more.txt
Deleted file - C:\Users\alex\test\b\foo.txt

Check what's left:-

C:\Users\alex\test>dir /b /s
C:\Users\alex\test\a
C:\Users\alex\test\b
C:\Users\alex\test\a\b

Directory structure intact.

Works the same if you do del /s /q * (and leaves the directories intact).

If, using that same structure as above, I just wanted to delete all files called more.txt wherever they were I could do:-

C:\Users\alex\test>del /q /s more.txt
Deleted file - C:\Users\alex\test\a\b\more.txt

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