Using del

30 May 2022 - jhunter

Sources

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft.powershell.management/remove-item?view=powershell-7.2

Command

del

Alias

remove-item

Definition

Remove an item.

Options

-Confirm:$False will prevent the alert message, so you can delete without having to confirm it.

-Recurse is used to delete the item and its child items. If you use -Confirm:$False without -Recurse then you will still be prompted to confirm the deletion of child items.

-Erroraction aka -ea is used to define how the command should behave if there is an error. If you leave this command out the default behaviour is usually to give an error message, and the command is not completed.

-Force is used to delete files which are hidden or read only.

Example

del Readme.txt

Example

del .'\VGA Utility_Intel.100.3370.0_W11x64_A\' -Confirm:$false -Force -Recurse