How to delete empty folders using windows command prompt?

Question

I need to delete all empty folders from my application folder using windows command prompt?

How can I create a bat file like that?

Please help me.

Answer 1

You can use the ROBOCOPY command. It is very simple and can also be used to delete empty folders inside large hierarchy.

ROBOCOPY folder1 folder1 /S /MOVE 

Here both source and destination are folder1, as you only need to delete empty folders, instead of moving other(required) files to different folder. /S option is to skip copying(moving - in the above case) empty folders. It is also faster as the files are moved inside the same drive.

Answer 2

A simpler way is to do xcopy to make a copy of the entire directory structure using /s switch. help for /s says Copies directories and subdirectories except empty ones.

xcopy dirA dirB /S 

where dirA is source with Empty folders. DirB will be the copy without empty folders