I have a txt file on many folders and want to delete it

Hey guys,

I have alot of sub-folders like more than 100 in 1 folder and on all sub-folder there is 1 txt file which I want to delete it. Is there any way ? Or any Commandar can do it like Speed Commandar or Total Commandar or One Commandar ?

Regards.

Is the .txt file the same name in all folders, are there other .txt file in those folders?
And in which top folder of the drive do the .txt files reside?

OAT said:

Is the .txt file the same name in all folders, are there other .txt file in those folders?
And in which top folder of the drive do the .txt files reside?

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Yes same name of that txt file in all folders and yes there are many other .txt files.

Its on my Desktop folder.

Open your desktop folder thru explorer
In the address bar, type in cmd > enter
at a command prompt:
del [yourtxtfilename].txt /s /p
This will delete that text file recursively stopping at each page (for you to verify- press enter to continue)

OAT said:

Open your desktop folder thru explorer
In the address bar, type in cmd > enter
at a command prompt:
del [yourtxtfilename].txt /s /p
This will delete that text file recursively stopping at each page (for you to verify- press enter to continue)

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That command will delete that .txt file from all sub-folders ?

That is what you asked for? Right?
Of course, you need to replace [yourtxtfilename] with your file name without brackets and there is a space between /s & /p

One thing I've used is clicking the main/first folder, go to Search and enter *.txt and search then Select all then delete the files found. The * is a wild card if not needing to know the whole file name.

jk22 said:

That command will delete that .txt file from all sub-folders ?

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All except ones that are hidden or have their read-only attribute set. You can add the /A option to also delete files that are hidden, and/or can add the /F option to also delete files that are read-only. So del [yourtxtfilename].txt /s /p /a /f will delete all occurrences of the specified file, also including in subfolders and also including if the file is hidden and/or is read-only.

EDIT: If you prefer, you can omit the /P option and instead redirect the output of the command to a new textfile. For example, del [yourtxtfilename].txt /s >"%userprofile%\Desktop\DeletedFiles.txt" will write the command's output to a textfile DeletedFiles.txt that will be created on your desktop. (If the file DeletedFiles.txt already exists on your desktop, it will be overwritten.)

OAT said:

Open your desktop folder thru explorer
In the address bar, type in cmd > enter
at a command prompt:
del [yourtxtfilename].txt /s /p
This will delete that text file recursively stopping at each page (for you to verify- press enter to continue)

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Its say this:

Well it have $ sign aswell maybe cmd is not accepting special character ?

No $ sign is OK,
Can you from the same location (top), do
Attrib -h -r -s *.* /d (you may get an access denied if some files are in use)
and then do the delete command above.
Please attach a screenshot if that does not work.

Berton said:

One thing I've used is clicking the main/first folder, go to Search and enter *.txt and search then Select all then delete the files found. The * is a wild card if not needing to know the whole file name.

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I have used your trick and it worked.

OAT said:

No $ sign is OK,
Can you from the same location (top), do
Attrib -h -r -s *.* /d (you may get an access denied if some files are in use)
and then do the delete command above.
Please attach a screenshot if that does not work.

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I have used the search option from Search This PC and it worked.

Good, I am glad.

jk22 said:

I have used your trick and it worked.

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Good. And it's not actually a 'trick' but a feature of the file managers, goes back a'ways.

Berton said:

Good. And it's not actually a 'trick' but a feature of the file managers, goes back a'ways.

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Yes you are right which I forgot to use it lol.