Referencing all subfolders in a folder

[Conk1]

Hi I'm trying to make a batch file easier as I do a similar task to this quite a few times:

del /f /s /q "C:\ProgramData\Kaspersky Lab\AVP6\Data\Updater\Temporary Files\*.*"
del /f /s /q "C:\ProgramData\Kaspersky Lab\AVP7\Data\Updater\Temporary Files\*.*"
del /f /s /q "C:\ProgramData\Kaspersky Lab\AVP8\Data\Updater\Temporary Files\*.*"
del /f /s /q "C:\ProgramData\Kaspersky Lab\AVP9\Data\Updater\Temporary Files\*.*"
del /f /s /q "C:\ProgramData\Kaspersky Lab\AVP10\Data\Updater\Temporary Files\*.*"
del /f /s /q "C:\ProgramData\Kaspersky Lab\AVP11\Data\Updater\Temporary Files\*.*"

Ideally I'd like to wildcard it like:
del /f /s /q "C:\ProgramData\Kaspersky Lab\*\Data\Updater\Temporary Files\*.*"
So that it would delete all the folders mentioned above.

Anyone know how I can do this?

[aGerman]

FOR /D will help you.

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@echo off &setlocal
pushd "C:\ProgramData\Kaspersky Lab" ||goto :eof
for /d %%a in (AVP*) do (
  del /f /s /q "%%a\Data\Updater\Temporary Files\*.*"
)
popd

Regards
aGerman

[Conk1]

Thanks!

One more question though.

Say the folders weren't all called AVP6, AVP7, AVP8 etc and were just random names. Could I change your code to:
for /d %%a in (*)

[aGerman]

Yes, of course. The asterisk is for each literal expression, so your FOR loop will find each subfolder in the current directory.
You could also write something like that
for /d %%a in (?????) do ...
to find all subfolder names with 5 or less single characters.
For experiments it's harmless to echo the found names, e.g.

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for /d %%a in (?????) do echo %%a
pause

Regards
aGerman

[Conk1]

Thanks once again