How to quietly remove a directory with content in PowerShell

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Remove-Item -LiteralPath "foldertodelete" -Force -Recurse

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The Recurse parameter in this cmdlet does not work properly

The command to workaround is

Get-ChildItem -Path $Destination -Recurse | Remove-Item -force -recurse

And then delete the folder itself

Remove-Item $Destination -Force

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This worked for me:

Remove-Item $folderPath -Force  -Recurse -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue

Thus the folder is removed with all files in there and it is not producing error if folder path doesn't exists.

CodeHunter