I am trying to create a batch FILE that will delete the contents of any folder (not the folder itself) called "temp" located on my C drive. The temp folders may or may not be directly under the root. For example I would want it to delete the contents of the following folders.

C:\temp\
C:\test\TEMP\
C:\test1\test2\TEMP\

Thank you,
ScottThis should work:

Code: [Select]@echo off
echo Start Cleaning
pause
for /R "C:\" %%a in (TEMP\*) do (
echo Found Temp folder:
echo %%~dpa
pause
cd %%~dpa
del /Q *.*
)
echo Done
pause

Thanks for the code but thiere is an issue with it.

I changed the /Q to a /P to check its functionality and found that it WANTS to delete files from my desktop that do not have temp in the path.

Thanks,
ScottSorry about that, hold onI believe this should work, sorry about the last script, didn't REALIZE that.

Code: [Select]@echo off
echo Start Cleaning
pause
for /R "C:\" %%a in (*) do (
echo %%~dpa | findstr "TEMP" > temp.tmp
for /f "delims=." %%b in (temp.tmp) do (
echo Found Temp folder:
echo %%a
pause
echo %%a
pause
del /P "%%a"
)
del temp.tmp
)
pause
Hope this helps
,Nick(macdad-)The batch file still doesn't seem to be working. I have modified it slightly to show more info. Below is the output I get. Thanks for your help!


P:\Profile\Desktop>REM @echo off

P:\Profile\Desktop>echo Start Cleaning
Start Cleaning

P:\Profile\Desktop>pause
Press any key to continue . . .

P:\Profile\Desktop>for /R "C:\" %a in (*) do (
echo %~dpa | findstr "TEMP" 1>temp.tmp
for /F "delims=." %b in (temp.tmp) do (
echo Found Temp folder:
echo %a
pause
echo %a
pause
del %a" /P
)
del temp.tmp /P
)

P:\Profile\Desktop>(
echo C:\ | findstr "TEMP" 1>temp.tmp
for /F "delims=." %b in (temp.tmp) do (
echo Found Temp folder:
echo C:\140engc2.exe
pause
echo C:\140engc2.exe
pause
del C:\140engc2.exe" /P
)
del temp.tmp /P
)
P:\Profile\Desktop\temp.tmp, Delete (Y/N)?Did you replace the C:\ with the drive letter that you would run this batch on?

C:\ to P:\