What's the equivalent to 'rm -rf' with Windows command?

I need to delete a whole directory (with a lot of sub directories and files) by running a command in a batch file.

I tried delete and erase, but both of them requires me to answer 'Y/N', and it doesn't seem to delete the directories if one has subdirectories or files.

What command can I use to delete a directory with subdirectories/files without whatever prompt?

3 Answers

rmdir /s /q [directory]

Try:

DEL /Q /S /F <FILE/DIR>

or

DELETE /Q /S /F <FILE/DIR>

I'm not sure if it's a valid command in the W7 CLI, but back when DOS was still DOS, it was as simple as:

deltree /y <dirname or path>