PowerShell: How To Delete Files and folders, multiple files and files with wild characters.
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This post explains how to delete files and folders using PowerShell command 'Remove-Item'. Also we are going to cover deleting of multiple files and removing files with wild characters.
For a single file:
Remove-Item test.txt
For multiple files:
Remove-Item test1.txt test2.txt test3.txt
For files with wild characters
Remove-Item *.txt
or
Remove-Item *.xls
and so on
To delete a directory
Remove-Item foldertodelete
It will ask you if you want to delete the whole content select "Y" for yes and press enter.