delete folders/files with only numbers in name?

[Homerboy]

I need to come up with a Windows script to delete only folders and it's contents where the name contains just number (0-9) They would be a maximum of 4 characters.
Anyone have any ideas?

 

[mxnerd]

Advanced Renamer, free.

https://www.advancedrenamer.com/

 

[Homerboy]

Advanced Renamer, free.

https://www.advancedrenamer.com/

Gotta be a script though so I can run it nightly

 

[mxnerd]

Gotta be a script though so I can run it nightly

https://www.advancedrenamer.com/user_guide/example_scripting

or use https://www.advancedrenamer.com/user_guide/commandline & run it with Windows Task Scheduler

or learn powershell scripting

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/po...hell.management/remove-item?view=powershell-6

 

[mxnerd]

Remove-Item -Path P:\Test\ -Force -Recurse -Include *[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]*

This PowerShell will delete folders or files under P:\Test\ with exactly 4 digits in the name.

if you want to delete folders or files with 1, 2 or 3 digits in the name just add

Remove-Item -Path P:\Test\ -Force -Recurse -Include *[0-9]*
Remove-Item -Path P:\Test\ -Force -Recurse -Include *[0-9][0-9]*
Remove-Item -Path P:\Test\ -Force -Recurse -Include *[0-9][0-9][0-9]*

to the above script

or just any number of digits anywhere in the name

Remove-Item -Path P:\Test\ -Force -Recurse -Include *[0-9]*

is all you need.

https://community.spiceworks.com/how_to/17736-run-powershell-scripts-from-task-scheduler

 

[Homerboy]

After some digging, I realized all the folders begin with "6". So I was able to do it this way:

FOR /D %%X IN (C:\folder\6*) DO RD /S /Q "%%X"

 

[Cogman]

Linux subsystem for windows. It's magical You can install ubuntu and then bash your way out of this sort of problem

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/23576/how-do-i-recursively-delete-directories-with-wildcard

 

[mxnerd]

Yeah, it can be done by installing Linux subsystem. But it's kind of overkill.

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You also can get things done with VBscript instead of using batch file or PowerShell.