Using rd and del commands.

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Conk1 · #1 Post by **Conk1** » 04 Dec 2009 10:04

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?

avery_larry · #2 Post by **avery_larry** » 04 Dec 2009 10:22

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.

Conk1 · #3 Post by **Conk1** » 04 Dec 2009 10:30

Thanks for your reply

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

BILL Dos · #4 Post by **BILL Dos** » 07 Dec 2009 19:04

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.

Conk1 · #5 Post by **Conk1** » 07 Dec 2009 19:41

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