How to Delete File Using Batch Script

This article will demonstrate how to delete a file using a Batch script.

Delete File Using Batch Script

Generally, we can easily delete a file by clicking Delete or pressing the delete button on the keyboard. But in Batch, we have to follow a general format or syntax.

Syntax:

del filename

We will see the various formats of this command with examples below.

This example will delete a file named test.txt. This will only work when you are executing this while in the file’s directory.

del test.txt

The below example will delete a file provided by the location.

del d:\test.txt

This command will delete all the type .txt files in the directory.

del d:\*.txt

Our last example will delete the file from the directory, ending with est.txt, whatever the file name starts with.

del d:\?est.txt

All of the methods discussed above are only for Windows environments.