You need to throw in a /d if you want to match against directories
For /d %f in (<path>\directory*) do rd /s "%f" From: Gavin Wilby [mailto:gavin.wi...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2010 10:38 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: RMDIR and Wildcards Hi Tim, Are you sure that syntax is correct, as it doesnt appear to work here :( Gavin. On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 4:25 PM, Tim Evans <tev...@sparling.com> wrote: for %f in (<path>\directory*) do rd /s "%f" Add /Q if you're brave and don't want to be prompted for each one ...Tim From: Gavin Wilby [mailto:gavin.wi...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2010 8:05 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RMDIR and Wildcards Hi, For one reason or another I have a need to automatically remove certain directories (full or otherwise) from a few windows server systems. As rmdir <path>\directory* /S doesnt appear to work, is there any other way that this can be batched and scheduled? The directories are all called randomnumber.tmp and so I want to wildcard the rmdir. Yes, these are directories NOT tmp files. -- Gavin Wilby, Twitter: http://twitter.com/gavin_wilby GSXR Blog: http://www.stoof.co.uk <http://www.stoof.co.uk/> -- Gavin Wilby, Twitter: http://twitter.com/gavin_wilby GSXR Blog: http://www.stoof.co.uk Sent from Whitehaven, Eng, United Kingdom ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
