What ever happened to deltree, and what's its replacement?

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In earlier versions of MS-DOS - I want to say version 7, but I could be wrong - there was a deltree command, which recursively deleted all subdirectories and files from a given path.

deltree no longer exists, but del didn't seem to inherit the ability to delete a tree. del /s deletes files, but not folders.

How to you easily (i.e., in one command) delete a tree from a batch file?

dos cmd batch-file windows
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Jeremiah_341830 
rmdir /s /q directory
user_226560 
$ help rd
Removes (deletes) a directory.

RMDIR [/S] [/Q] [drive:]path
RD [/S] [/Q] [drive:]path

    /S      Removes all directories and files in the specified directory
            in addition to the directory itself.  Used to remove a directory
            tree.

    /Q      Quiet mode, do not ask if ok to remove a directory tree with /S
Ferruccio_40860

Use this:

cd (your directory here)
del *.* /f /s /q
user_102372280

Delete all files and subdirectories

cd /d Directory && rd /s /q .\
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