fdeltree

Simple, fast recursive file deletion utility for Windows

This program is distributed WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY. Licensed under the GNU GPL. See COPYING for more information.

Short introduction

All existing utilities I could find either could not handle long pathnames (for example del /s /f /q) or were very slow (windows explorer would take hours or days). If you need to delete a few hundreds of thousands (or even millions) of files within reasonable time, this utility is the way to go.

USAGE:

fdeltree [options] <directory>
options:
  /h  -  print this help
  /v  -  verbose (print statistics every few seconds)
  /f  -  force deleting of read-only files

BE CAREFUL! fdeltree will recursively delete the given directory without any further messages or progress report. On my a bit dated machine, it deletes more than 75000 files/directories per minute from hard disk.

McNetic/fdeltree

fdeltree

Short introduction