
The NTFS filesystem of NT4/W2K/WXP supports the junction/symbolic link functionality. Deleting subdirectories recursivley can be done by various of tools, but only xdel is aware of junctions/symbolic link, and instead of crawling recursivley down a junction/symbolic link, xdel simply unlinks the junction/symbolic link, and so does no harm to contents chained into a hierarchy via junctions/symbolic link.
Furthermore xdel.exe properly deletes very long pathnames with more than 256 characters.
xdel.exe is a typical command line utility.
Recursivly delete directory hierarchies. e.g.:
`xdel x:\dir\dir2`
In the above example the directories and files below x:\dir\dir2 are deleted.