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Hello, I was wondering if the latter of commands is more effective:

rd /s /q "C:\temp\"

or:

del /f /s /q "C:\temp\*.*"
rd /s /q "C:\temp\"

Does adding the del command before rd makes it anymore effective or reliable for a directory of files?

I'm not aware of anyway that would be better. Unless you have locked files. Then using the 2 commands might get more accomplished before erroring out with a locked file or something.

otherwise the del command is redundant.

Thanks for your reply

So the only benefit of using both lines would be that the timeout would be longer?

You used rd /s /q "C:\temp\"
which is good if your system drive is Always C: but I perfer
doing the rd /s /q "%systemdrive%:\temp\"
That way you can have multiple drives and don't error out.

That is what I'm doing as well as other variables like %userprofile% and "localappdata% for vista.