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How can I delete the contents of a folder from the command line on Windows?

I am writing a deployment script using MSBuild. I want to clear my web directories before copying all new files. My current target "Clean" looks like this:

 <Target Name="Clean">
    <Exec Command="del %(DeploymentSet.LocalWebRoot)\* /Q /F /S" IgnoreExitCode="true" />
  </Target>

This takes a significant amount of time because each file is removed from each subfolder individually.

Is there a good way to delete everything from a given folder without deleting that folder? I want to keep my permissions and vdir installation information.

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You can rmdir /s /q

each subdirectory separately and then del %(DeploymentSet.LocalWebRoot)\* /Q /F

your net target. For example:



 <Target Name="Clean">
    <Exec Command="rmdir %(DeploymentSet.LocalWebRoot)\subdir1 /Q /S" IgnoreExitCode="true" />
    <Exec Command="rmdir %(DeploymentSet.LocalWebRoot)\subdir2 /Q /S" IgnoreExitCode="true" />
    ...
    <Exec Command="rmdir %(DeploymentSet.LocalWebRoot)\subdirN /Q /S" IgnoreExitCode="true" />
    <Exec Command="del %(DeploymentSet.LocalWebRoot)\* /Q /F" IgnoreExitCode="true" />
  </Target>
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If you don't want to list the names of each subdirectory, use this:



<Target Name="Clean">
    <Exec Command="del /F /Q %(DeploymentSet.LocalWebRoot)\*.*" />
    <Exec Command="for /d /r &quot;%(DeploymentSet.LocalWebRoot)&quot; %v IN (*) DO rd /S /Q &quot;%v&quot;" />
</Target>
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