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How to delete directories with path/names too long for normal delete
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#############如何在windows下删除文件名过长的文件##########

from the website http://superuser.com/questions/78434/how-to-delete-directories-with-path-names-too-long-for-normal-delete#answer-776859

None of the other (free) answers here worked for me, but I found one on another site:

rimraf <dir>

rimraf is a Node.js package, so you will need to install Node.js which includes npm. Then you can run:

npm install -g rimraf

Then you can run rimraf from the command line.

I found this solution because npm itself was causing this problem due to the way it nests dependencies. By the way, rimraf gets its name from the UNIX command rm -rf, which recursively deletes files and folders.

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