Delete the folder whose name begins with something on the command line (batch)

Question

I read and tried the code from

• What is the fastest way to delete a large folder in Windows? ( rmdir /s /q folder )

• Delete files using the Windows command line

I want to create a package that deletes a folder whose name begins with Test_ . I have a folder D:\Test_123_19_10_2012 .

How to write in batch or command line? Need a regular expression?

Thank you for your patience.

Answer 1

Here you go

 for /d %%a in (D:\Test_*) do rd %%a /q 

The for loop is necessary because rd does not seem to support wildcards.