To delete all folders in the current directory with pattern matching

Question

I need to delete all the folders in current directory that starts with say \"foo\" followed by date
for example we have

1. foo20120620
2. foo2

Answer 1

The magical for command in dos batch....

from the command line

for /f "tokens=*" %f in ('dir .\foo* /ad/b') do rd "%f" /s/q 

from the batch file

for /f "tokens=*" %%f in ('dir .\foo* /ad/b') do rd "%%f" /s/q 

/f runs the command in the '' in the brackets, and tokenises its. By saying tokens=* all the file/dir name goe into one variable %f

here is an example

C:\temp>md foo3

C:\temp>md foo2

C:\temp>md foo1

C:\temp>dir
 Volume in drive C is TEST
 Volume Serial Number is F47F-AAE1

 Directory of C:\temp

18/06/2012  09:42 p.m.              .
18/06/2012  09:42 p.m.              ..
18/06/2012  09:42 p.m.              foo1
18/06/2012  09:42 p.m.              foo2
18/06/2012  09:42 p.m.              foo3
               0 File(s)              0 bytes
               5 Dir(s)  131,009,933,312 bytes free

C:\temp>for /f "tokens=*" %f in ('dir .\foo* /ad/b') do rd "%f" /s/q

C:\temp>rd "foo1" /s/q

C:\temp>rd "foo2" /s/q

C:\temp>rd "foo3" /s/q

C:\temp>dir /ad
 Volume in drive C is TEST
 Volume Serial Number is F47F-AAE1

 Directory of C:\temp

18/06/2012  09:42 p.m.              .
18/06/2012  09:42 p.m.              ..
               0 File(s)              0 bytes
               2 Dir(s)  131,009,933,312 bytes free

C:\temp>