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


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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 ?

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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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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.
 

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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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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)
Click to expand...
That command will delete that .txt file from all sub-folders ?
 

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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
 

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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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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.)
 
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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)
Click to expand...
Its say this:
9c15695995.png


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

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

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Good, I am glad.
 

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jk22 said:
I have used your trick and it worked.
Click to expand...
Good. And it's not actually a 'trick' but a feature of the file managers, goes back a'ways.
 

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Berton said:
Good. And it's not actually a 'trick' but a feature of the file managers, goes back a'ways.
Click to expand...
Yes you are right which I forgot to use it lol.
 

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