{"id":679,"date":"2011-12-13T17:01:52","date_gmt":"2011-12-14T03:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mymonkeydo.com\/?p=679"},"modified":"2011-12-13T17:01:52","modified_gmt":"2011-12-14T03:01:52","slug":"recursivley-delete-a-specific-file-in-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mymonkeydo.com\/recursivley-delete-a-specific-file-in-windows\/","title":{"rendered":"Recursivley delete a specific file in windows"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Problem<\/h2>\n<p>I had WS_FTP.log in almost all my folders. I didn&#8217;t want them anymore so I needed a way to easily recursively delete the file from all my sub directories.<\/p>\n<h2>Solution<\/h2>\n<p>Open the dos prompt (cmd). navigate to the directory that you want to remove the files in. Run the following command to get rid of any file ending in .tmp<br \/>\ndel \/s *.tmp<\/p>\n<p>Be careful with using this. 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