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Cifs share periodic file deletion script

terhand — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 09:54:11 GMT

Hello, I want to periodically automatically delete the content of one of my share files.
I changed the following instruction according to myself, I applied it, but I am not getting any results.
Anyone have experience on this?

set folder="\\X.X.X.X\path" cd /d %folder% for /F "delims=" %%i in ('dir /b') do (rmdir "%%i" /s/q || del " %%i" /s/q)

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Re: Cifs share periodic file deletion script

terhand — Sun, 08 Jan 2023 17:51:39 GMT

I was able to delete the network file share with periodic task with the following batch. my problem is solved, but if there are any suggestions about the method or different, I can take it.

@ECHO OFF

SET THEDIR=path-to-folder

Echo Deleting all files from %THEDIR%
DEL "%THEDIR%\*" /F /Q /A

Echo Deleting all folders from %THEDIR%
FOR /F "eol=| delims=" %%I in ('dir "%THEDIR%\*" /AD /B 2^>nul') do rd /Q /S "%THEDIR%\%%I"
@ECHO Folder deleted.

EXIT