command line - Windows batch script to delete everything in a folder except one

Question

I have a script to delete all subfolders and files in a folder:

FOR /D %%i IN ("D:myfolder*") DO RD /S /Q "%%i" & DEL /Q "D:myfolder*.*"

And it works great! Only problem is that I would like to exclude one or more folders, like the XCOPY exclude feature.

I just cant figure how I could add that to the script.

Answer 1

You could try to hide the folders before the for-loop, and unhide them afterwards, like this:

ATTRIB +H D:myfolderkeepit
FOR /D %%i IN ("D:myfolder*") DO RD /S /Q "%%i" DEL /Q "D:myfolder*.*"
ATTRIB -H D:myfolderkeepit