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del — Delete one or more files. In PowerShell, this command is an alias of `Remove-Item`. This documentati

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Problem

How to use the del command: Delete one or more files. In PowerShell, this command is an alias of Remove-Item. This documentation is based on the Command Prompt (cmd) version of del. More information: <https://learn.microsoft.com/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/del>.

Solution

del — Delete one or more files. In PowerShell, this command is an alias of Remove-Item. This documentation is based on the Command Prompt (cmd) version of del. More information: <https://learn.microsoft.com/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/del>.

View the documentation of the equivalent PowerShell command:

tldr remove-item

Delete one or more files or patterns:

del {{file_pattern1 file_pattern2 ...}}

Prompt for confirmation before deleting each file:

del {{file_pattern}} /p

Force the deletion of read-only files:

del {{file_pattern}} /f

Recursively delete file(s) from all subdirectories:

del {{file_pattern}} /s

Do not prompt when deleting files based on a global wildcard:

del {{file_pattern}} /q

Delete files based on specified attributes:

del {{file_pattern}} /a {{attribute}}

Display help and list available attributes:

del /?

Code Snippets

View the documentation of the equivalent PowerShell command

tldr remove-item

Delete one or more files or patterns

del {{file_pattern1 file_pattern2 ...}}

Prompt for confirmation before deleting each file

del {{file_pattern}} /p

Force the deletion of read-only files

del {{file_pattern}} /f

Recursively delete file(s) from all subdirectories

del {{file_pattern}} /s

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