Automatic confirmation of deletion in powershell

Question

I'm running the following command:

get-childitem C:\temp\ -exclude *.svn-base,".svn" -recurse | foreach ($_) {remove-item $_.fullname} 

Which prompts me very frequently like this:

Confirm The item at C:\temp\f\a\d has children and the Recurse parameter was not specified. If you continue, all children will be removed with the item. Are you sure you want to continue? [Y] Yes  [A] Yes to All  [N] No  [L] No to All  [S] Suspend  [?] Help (default is "Y"):  

How can I have it automatically set to "A"?

Answer 1

The default is: no prompt.

You can enable it with -Confirm or disable it with -Confirm:$false

However, it will still prompt, when the target:

• is a directory
• and it is not empty
• and the -Recurse parameter is not specified.

-Force is required to also remove hidden and read-only items etc.

To sum it up:

Remove-Item -Recurse -Force -Confirm:$false 

...should cover all scenarios.

Answer 2

Add -confirm:$false to suppress confirmation.