rm -rf equivalent for Windows?

To remove a directory and all its contents, including any subdirectories and files, use the rm command with the recursive option, -r . $ rm -r veggies3 $ ...

Deletes a directory. The rmdir command can also run from the Windows Recovery Console, using different parameters.

To delete folders and subfolders on Windows 10, open Command Prompt (admin) and run the “rmdir” command, for example, “rmdir /s C:-files”.

Try opening the CMD as Administrator, but be sure to check that it's safe to delete the folder. Share Share a link to this answer Copy link

Removes all directories and files in the specified directory in addition to the directory itself. Used to remove a directory tree.

Use del on the files inside, then rmdir to remove the folder. To use the rmdir method to remove all the ...

rmdir /? will give you the full details of the command line arguments - S is Removes all directories and files in the specified directory in addition to the ...

To remove a directory, just use the command rmdir <directory name> . Note: Any directories deleted with the rmdir command cannot ...

Use the rmdir command to remove the directory, specified by the Directory parameter, from the system . The directory must be empty (it can contain only . and ..) before you can remove it, and you must have write permission in its parent directory.