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Commands
Date II Find Prompt Set Start Cls Tree
Commands [cont'd]
Powershell Type Taskkill
String manipulation
Substring Find String Find & Replace String Concat Split string by delimiter
Things to Know
Declaring variable Inline multiple statements @echo off File content to variable Present working directory Add comments and multiline comments in MS DOS Directory is Exist
Things to Know [cont'd]
Prompt value
Decision making
For Loop IF statement Goto If Else
File System
MKDir Echo. > filename.txt For each.. in RmDir
Arithmetic Operators
Arithmetic Operators + (Plus) Operator - (Minus) Operator * (Multiply) Operator / (Division) Operator %% (Mod) Operator
Relational Operators
Equals Relational operators Not equals Greater than Greater than or equals to Less than or equals to Less than
Logical Operators
AND Operator OR Operator NOT Operator
Examples
How to create template file by batch file MS DOS Commands How to add ms-dos parameters/arguments with spaces Percentage in echo ms dos escape characters How to append string in a file using MS DOS Commands How to escape characters in string using MS DOS Commands
RmDir in File System of MS-DOS Commands
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Rmdir command in MS-DOS 
rmdir is remove directory command. It is used to remove directory's.

If there is no file in directory, then use
      rmdir dir_name

To remove multiple empty directories
      rmdir dir_name1 dir_name2....

To remove non empty directories
      rmdir /s dir_name1 dir_name2....
      - It is asking the confirmation to delete given directory.
Demo 
d:\tmp>mkdir images songs videos

d:\tmp>dir
 Volume in drive D has no label.
 Volume Serial Number is 8460-8FB0

 Directory of d:\tmp

05/04/2014  10:53 PM    <DIR>          .
05/04/2014  10:53 PM    <DIR>          ..
05/04/2014  10:53 PM    <DIR>          images
05/04/2014  10:53 PM    <DIR>          songs
05/04/2014  10:53 PM    <DIR>          videos
               0 File(s)              0 bytes
               5 Dir(s)  13,269,868,544 bytes free

d:\tmp>rmdir images

d:\tmp>dir
 Volume in drive D has no label.
 Volume Serial Number is 8460-8FB0

 Directory of d:\tmp

05/04/2014  10:53 PM    <DIR>          .
05/04/2014  10:53 PM    <DIR>          ..
05/04/2014  10:53 PM    <DIR>          songs
05/04/2014  10:53 PM    <DIR>          videos
               0 File(s)              0 bytes
               4 Dir(s)  13,269,868,544 bytes free

d:\tmp>rmdir images
The system cannot find the file specified.

d:\tmp>rmdir songs videos

d:\tmp>dir
 Volume in drive D has no label.
 Volume Serial Number is 8460-8FB0

 Directory of d:\tmp

05/04/2014  10:54 PM    <DIR>          .
05/04/2014  10:54 PM    <DIR>          ..
               0 File(s)              0 bytes
               2 Dir(s)  13,269,868,544 bytes free

d:\tmp>
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