Delete all files and folders EXCEPT those with extension .svn and .svn-base

Question

I need to remove all files and folders from a particular parent folder except those which have .svn as the foldername and those which have *.svn-base as their filename.

Is there a Windows script that can do this for me?

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Edit1

@Mizo - your solution returned the following while wiping out everything:

C:\temp>clean-all-except-svn.bat
File not found - *.svn_base
0 File(s) copied
0 File(s) copied

I had changed the clean.bat reference in the file itself.

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Edit2

I fixed the typo as follows but still the same error

XCOPY /Q /Y *.svn-base __cltmp


C:\temp>clean-all-except-svn.bat
File not found - *.svn-base
0 File(s) copied
0 File(s) copied

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Edit3

(a) It keeps prompting me

Confirm
The item at C:\temp\f\a\d has children and the Recurse parameter was not specified. If you continue,
all children will be removed with the item. Are you sure you want to continue?
[Y] Yes  [A] Yes to All  [N] No  [L] No to All  [S] Suspend  [?] Help (default is "Y"): 

(b) It displays THOUSANDS of messages like:

At line:1 char:86
+ get-childitem C:\temp\ -exclude *.svn-base,".svn" -recurse | foreach ($_) {remove-item <<<<  $_.fullname}
    + CategoryInfo          : PermissionDenied: (change_email.php.svn-base:FileInfo) [Remove-Item], IOException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : RemoveFileSystemItemUnAuthorizedAccess,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.RemoveItemCommand
Remove-Item : Cannot remove item C:\temp\admin\.svn\text-base\change_email_submit.php.svn-base: Not Enough permission to
 perform operation.

Answer 1

Using Powershell:

get-childitem C:\folder\ -exclude *.svn-base,".svn" -recurse | foreach ($_) {remove-item $_.fullname}

Update: the code below should do what you wanted. It removes all files except *.svn-base AND does not delete ANY folders.

Some notes:gci is an alias of get-childitem, just to save some space. Added -Force parameter to remove-item since you seem to have some kind of permissions problem.

gci C:\folder\ -exclude *.svn-base -recurse | foreach ($_) {if(!$_.PSIsContainer){remove-item -Force $_.fullname}}

Answer 2

clean.bat:

@ECHO OFF
FOR /F "tokens=*" %%d IN ('dir /B /AD') DO IF NOT %%d==.svn RMDIR /S /Q %%d
MD __cltmp
XCOPY /Q /Y *.svn_base __cltmp
FOR /F "tokens=*" %%f IN ('dir /B /A-D') DO IF NOT %%f==clean.bat DEL /F /Q %%f
XCOPY /Q /Y __cltmp\* .
RMDIR /S /Q __cltmp