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Use the Delete() Method Every object in PowerShell has a Delete() method and you can use it to remove that object. To delete files and folders, use the Get-ChildItem command and use the Delete() method on the output.
To remove a directory and all its contents, including any subdirectories and files, use the rm command with the recursive option, -r . Directories that are removed with the rmdir command cannot be recovered, nor can directories and their contents removed with the rm -r command.
Open PowerShell by pressing the Start button and typing PowerShell. Press Enter. Type Remove-Item –path c:\testfolder –recurse and hit Enter.
In the PowerShell console, type Remove-Item –path c:\testfolder –recurse and press Enter, replacing c:\testfolder with the full path to the folder you want to delete.
Remove-Item -LiteralPath "foldertodelete" -Force -Recurse
From PowerShell remove force answer: help Remove-Item says:
The Recurse parameter in this cmdlet does not work properly
The command to workaround is
Get-ChildItem -Path $Destination -Recurse | Remove-Item -force -recurse
And then delete the folder itself
Remove-Item $Destination -Force
This worked for me:
Remove-Item $folderPath -Force -Recurse -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
Thus the folder is removed with all files in there and it is not producing error if folder path doesn't exists.
2018 Update
In the current version of PowerShell (tested with v5.1 on Windows 10 1809) one can use the simpler Unix syntax rm -R .\DirName to silently delete the directory .\DirName with all subdirectories and files it may contain. In fact many common Unix commands work in the same way in PowerShell as in a Linux command line.
To delete content without a folder you can use the following:
Remove-Item "foldertodelete\*" -Force -Recurse
in short, We can use rm -r -fo {folderName} to remove the folder recursively (remove all the files and folders inside) and force
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