rmdir
Remove a directory and its contents.
In PowerShell, this command is an alias of Remove-Item
. This documentation is based on the Command Prompt (cmd
) version of rmdir
.
More information: https://learn.microsoft.com/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/rmdir.
- View the documentation of the equivalent PowerShell command:
tldr remove-item
- Remove an empty directory:
rmdir
path\to\directory
- Remove a directory and its contents recursively:
rmdir
path\to\directory /s
- Remove a directory and its contents recursively without prompting:
rmdir
path\to\directory /s /q