Rmdir command not working after copying war file using windows batch

Question

I write windows batch file for copying war file. Then I remove the directory that contain war file but the directory does not disappear. See my command

  copy D:\target\*.war D:\new_target
  IF exist D:\target (
    rmdir D:\target /s /q
  )

But my folder "target" can't delete.Is there any comments for delete folder batch command. I use rd instead of rmdir but the same result.I use Windows 7, 64bit.

Answer 1

MC ND explained most likely the reason for denied deletion. Another one would be no permission to delete the folder with the used user account according to NTFS permissions.

@echo off
if exist "D:\target\*.war" (
    cd /D D:\
    copy "D:\target\*.war" "D:\new_target"
    rd "D:\target" /s /q
)

Double quotes are used around all folder/file specifications in case of your real folders contain 1 or more spaces.

The batch file sets the current working directory to root of drive D: to avoid that directory D:\target is the current working directory of command line interpreter running this batch file.

But the executed batch file should nevertheless not be stored in D:\target.