Chinto's blog » windows http://blog.chintoju.com Can you get something out of nothing... Mon, 23 Aug 2010 02:19:38 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Recursively Delete files within all sub directories in DOS http://blog.chintoju.com/2008/06/recursively-delete-files-within-all-sub-directories-in-dos.html http://blog.chintoju.com/2008/06/recursively-delete-files-within-all-sub-directories-in-dos.html#comments Fri, 13 Jun 2008 02:36:00 +0000 Kishore http://blog.chintoju.com/?p=17 dels *.bak But be careful.. there is no confirmation dialog.]]> Ever wondered how to delete files matching a certain patten from within all sub-directories in DOS (aka Windows).

Simple

At your command prompt type simply DEL /S *.ext
eg:
To delete all .bak files within D:Workspace

D:workspace>dels *.bak

But be careful.. there is no confirmation dialog.

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