Command to delete content within a file

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Active Oldest Votes. Chelseawillrecover Chelseawillrecover 2, 1 1 gold badge 27 27 silver badges 51 51 bronze badges. Thanks for the added PowerShell command!

David Fort David Fort 93 1 1 silver badge 2 2 bronze badges. Any idea why? This doesn't work at all. It echo's 1 file s copied. It should display the output "1 file s copied", but the resulting file should be 0 length. Works for me, I just checked. Make sure you are not redirecting output. I tried again using your method correctly , and it worked. Very creative solution. Thanks — dgo. Sergey Podobry Sergey Podobry 6, 1 1 gold badge 40 40 silver badges 49 49 bronze badges.

Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. The only difference is that you may not be able to delete some protected files, which shouldn't be a problem in most cases.

Now that Command Prompt is open, use cd to change directories to where your files are. I've prepared a directory on the desktop called Test Folder. Note: Any files deleted with the del command cannot be recovered. Be very careful where and how you use this command. Also, bonus tip — Command Prompt has basic autocompletion. So you could just type in del test , press the tab key, and Command Prompt will change it to del "Test File.

Sometimes files are marked as read only, and you'll see the following error when you try to use the del command:. Both commands work the same way, but let's stick with rmdir since it's a bit more expressive. Also, I'll use the terms directory and folder interchangeably for the rest of the tutorial. Note: Any directories deleted with the rmdir command cannot be recovered.

In this case I want to remove a directory named Subfolder, so I'll use the command rmdir Subfolder :. You could cd into the Subfolder directory and remove the file, then come back with cd..