deltree is a command line command

Command (computing)

In computing, a command is a directive to a computer program acting as an interpreter of some kind, in order to perform a specific task. Most commonly a command is a directive to some kind of command line interface, such as a shell....

 in Microsoft operating system

Operating system

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s that deletes an entire subdirectory of files. It appeared in MS-DOS

MS-DOS

MS-DOS is an operating system for x86-based personal computers. It was the most commonly used member of the DOS family of operating systems, and was the main operating system for IBM PC compatible personal computers during the 1980s to the mid 1990s, until it was gradually superseded by operating...

 6, and was retained throughout all Windows versions based upon MS-DOS, including Windows 95

Windows 95

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, Windows 98

Windows 98

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, and Windows Me

Windows Me

Windows Millennium Edition, or Windows Me , is a graphical operating system released on September 14, 2000 by Microsoft, and was the last operating system released in the Windows 9x series. Support for Windows Me ended on July 11, 2006....

. (For Windows versions before Windows 95, the presence of deltree depended on the version of the MS-DOS that was already required to be on the machine, which was completely separate from Windows.)

Deltree isn't present in Windows NT-based operating systems, including Windows NT

Windows NT

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, Windows 2000

Windows 2000

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, Windows XP

Windows XP

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, Windows Server

Windows Server

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, Windows Vista

Windows Vista

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 and Windows 7. Instead, the rd

Rmdir

rmdir is a command which will remove an empty directory on a Unix, DOS, OS/2 or Microsoft Windows operating system. In Unix, Linux, and MacOS, it is case sensitive, whereas DOS, OS/2 and Windows , you can type the characters in any combination of upper case and lower case letters, and rd/rmdir...

or rmdir

Rmdir

rmdir is a command which will remove an empty directory on a Unix, DOS, OS/2 or Microsoft Windows operating system. In Unix, Linux, and MacOS, it is case sensitive, whereas DOS, OS/2 and Windows , you can type the characters in any combination of upper case and lower case letters, and rd/rmdir...

(remove directory) command removes a subdirectory along with all its files if the /s command-line switch is present, and does so without prompting if the /q command-line switch is also present.

External links

• deltree at Microsoft.com