How to quietly remove a directory with content in PowerShell

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

From PowerShell remove force answer: help Remove-Item says:

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  

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.

2018 Update

In the current version of PowerShell (tested with v5.1 on Windows 10 1809) one can use the simpler Unix syntax rm -R .\DirName to silently delete the directory .\DirName with all subdirectories and files it may contain. In fact many common Unix commands work in the same way in PowerShell as in a Linux command line.

To delete content without a folder you can use the following:

Remove-Item "foldertodelete\*" -Force -Recurse