What ever happened to deltree, and what's its replacement?

Question

In earlier versions of MS-DOS - I want to say version 7, but I could be wrong - there was a deltree command, which recursively deleted all subdirectories and fi

Answer 1

It was replaced with the commands: RMDIR or RD

Delete all subdirectories with /S

Use it quietly with the /Q

Example:

RMDIR /S /Q Folder2Delete
RD /S /Q Folder2Delete

Documentation:

• DELTREE at Wikipedia
• RMDIR at Wikipedia
• RMDIR at Microsoft

Answer 2

Actually RMDIR and RD commands in modern Windows operating system merge both the commands RD and Deltree of Win 98 in a single command. It's an internal command that's why you won't find any RD.exe and RMDIR.exe.

By typing this "RD /?" in cmd without double qoutes you'll get exactly what you want.

Answer 3

Nowadays, you can use Powershell to do the same task:

powershell -Command "Remove-Item 'PathToMyDirectory\*' -Recurse -Force"

Answer 4

to delete a directory and all it's contents recursively

rd /s MY_DOOMED_DIR