How Can I Delete Files with Powershell Without Confirmation?

Remove-Item foldertodelete -Recurse -Force -Confirm:$false

works for me.

You need to add -Confirm:$false to the Remove-Item command to override the default confirmation behaviour. Failing that, try adding -Force.

In my opinion Remove-Item -Path "C:\Temp\FolderToDelete" -Confirm:$false -Force should just work without any prompt. But it doesn't.

To delete the whole folder and everything in it without any prompt, I had to use GCI and go up a level. So instead of:

Get-ChildItem -Path "C:\Temp\FolderToDelete" | Remove-Item -Recurse -Confirm:$false -Force

Which deletes everything inside FolderToDelete, but not the parent folder.

To delete the parent folder and everything in it without a prompt, I did:

Get-ChildItem -Path "C:\Temp\" -Directory -Filter "FolderToDelete" | Remove-Item -Recurse -Confirm:$false -Force

Note the trailing '\' in -Path C:\Temp\.

HTH

It says

Recurse parameter was not specified. If you continue, all children will be removed with the item. Are you sure you want to continue?

Try: Remove-Item ./folderToDelete -Force -Recurse

Delete a files folder\subfolders on D:\FOLDER (my example below), any files that older than 30 days.

Get-ChildItem -Path "D:\FOLDER\" -Recurse |? {($_.LastWriteTime -lt (Get-Date).AddDays(-30))} | Remove-Item -Recurse -Force -confirm:$false -Verbose

The -Force -Confirm:$false guarantees that you don't have to press Y or A every time it deletes a file or folder. The -Verbose displays what is being deleted.

You can simplify your script like it:

1. Use -file with Get-Childitem command
2. Not necessary to have a $Now variable
3. Use alias for your where (better visibility)
4. Your if must be out for check if no files
5. Add -Force to your Remove-Item command
6. Extension are not necessary if you use '\*.*'

Code ratified:

$Days = "10"
#----- define folder where files are located ----#
$TargetFolder = "D:\Shares\Downloads\TV\AutoDL"
#----- define LastWriteTime parameter based on $Days ---#
$LastWrite = (Get-Date).AddDays(-$Days)

#----- get files based on lastwrite filter and specified folder ---#
$Files = Get-Childitem $TargetFolder -Recurse -file | Where LastWriteTime -le "$LastWrite"

if ($Files -eq $null)
{
    Write-Host "No more files to delete!" -foregroundcolor "Green"
}
else
{
   $Files | %{
   write-host "Deleting File $_" -ForegroundColor "DarkRed"
   Remove-Item $_.FullName -Force   | out-null
   }

}

This worked for me:

Get-ChildItem -Path "FolderToDelete" -Directory -recurse | where {$_.LastWriteTime -le $(get-date).Adddays(-7)} | Remove-Item -recurse -force