Automatic confirmation of deletion in powershell - scripting

Question

I'm running the following command:
get-childitem C:\temp\ -exclude *.svn-base,".svn" -recurse | foreach ($_) {remove-item $_.fullname}
Which prompts me very frequently like this:
Confirm
The item at C:\temp\f\a\d has children and the Recurse parameter was not specified. If you continue,
all children will be removed with the item. Are you sure you want to continue?
[Y] Yes [A] Yes to All [N] No [L] No to All [S] Suspend [?] Help (default is "Y"):
How can I have it automatically set to "A"?

Answer 1

The default is: no prompt.
You can enable it with -Confirm or disable it with -Confirm:$false
However, it will still prompt, when the target:
is a directory
and it is not empty
and the -Recurse parameter is not specified.
-Force is required to also remove hidden and read-only items etc.
To sum it up:
Remove-Item -Recurse -Force -Confirm:$false
...should cover all scenarios.

Answer 2

Add -confirm:$false to suppress confirmation.

Answer 3

Try using the -Force parameter on Remove-Item.

Answer 4

Add -recurse after the remove-item, also the -force parameter helps remove hidden files
e.g.:
gci C:\temp\ -exclude *.svn-base,".svn" -recurse | %{ri $_ -force -recurse}

Answer 5

Remove-Item .\foldertodelete -Force -Recurse

Answer 6

Just an additional tip:
Let's say the PS1 (helloworld.ps1) has a code like below:
Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted -Confirm:$false -Force
Write-Host "Hello, World!"
And if we expect that each time the code runs, it would automatically run the Set-ExecutionPolicy without prompting the user & run the code silently...
It won't work that way!! I'm still figuring out how to run a PS code without prompting the user & will post the solution if I find out

Answer 7

You just need to add a /A behind the line.
Example:
get-childitem C:\temp\ -exclude *.svn-base,".svn" -recurse | foreach ($_) {remove-item $_.fullname} /a