How to delete specific files from sub folders?

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I have one folder like 'exportreport' having 60 to 70 different folders inside.
Now i want to delete files from all subfolders using vbscript, I have tried this:

VB

Const DeleteReadOnly = TRUE

Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
objFSO.DeleteFile("D:\exportreport\*.xls"), DeleteReadOnly

Posted 5-Jan-16 1:09am

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Updated 5-Jan-16 1:26am

Leo Chapiro

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Leo Chapiro · Answer 1 · 2016-01-05T01:28:00

You need to do it recursively, take a look (it is just an example):

VB

sub RecursiveDeleteByExtension(byval strDirectory,strExtensionsToDelete)
	DIM objFolder, objSubFolder, objFile
	DIM strExt

	set objFolder = objFSO.GetFolder(strDirectory)
	for each objFile in objFolder.Files
		for each strExt in SPLIT(UCASE(strExtensionsToDelete),",")
			if RIGHT(UCASE(objFile.Path),LEN(strExt)+1) = "." & strExt then
				wscript.echo "Deleting:" & objFile.Path
				objFile.Delete
				exit for
			end if
		next
	next	
	for each objSubFolder in objFolder.SubFolders
		RecursiveDeleteByExtension objSubFolder.Path,strExtensionsToDelete
	next
end sub