How to remove a folder and all its content from the current directory?

Question

This code that does not work:

@echo off  if exist output @set /p checkdir= Output directory found. Do you wish to overwrite it?:  if  /I %checkdir% == Y  deltree /s /output  pause 

Answer 1

You were looking for this command:

RMDIR [/S] [/Q] [drive:]path RD [/S] [/Q] [drive:]path      /S      Removes all directories and files in the specified directory             in addition to the directory itself.  Used to remove a directory             tree.      /Q      Quiet mode, do not ask if ok to remove a directory tree with /S 

In your case just use /S ,it will delete the whole directory tree by first asking the user if it should proceed, i.e.- displaying the following output to the screen:

"folderName, Are you sure (Y/N)?"

where folderName is the name of the folder (and its sub-folders) you wish to remove.

Tested on Windows 7, 64 bit.