How to delete empty folders using windows command prompt?

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You can use the ROBOCOPY command. It is very simple and can also be used to delete empty folders inside large hierarchy.

ROBOCOPY folder1 folder1 /S /MOVE

Here both source and destination are folder1, as you only need to delete empty folders, instead of moving other(required) files to different folder. /S option is to skip copying(moving – in the above case) empty folders. It is also faster as the files are moved inside the same drive.

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