how to delete a directory in cmd, without deleting its content?

Question

Im new to cmd, and I was given a task to delete a directory, without deleting its content, in one line. How can I do that? I had already tried rmdir and del, but they remove the content of the directory along with it. I thought about using move first in order to move the content, but I have no idea as for how to do it along with deleting the folder in one line. Any help would be much appreciated

Answer 1

Like this on all Microsoft OSes since 2000, and still good today:

dir & echo foo

If you want the second command to execute only if the first exited successfully:

dir && echo foo

As answered here.

So you can easily move, then delete the folder all in one line.