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Recursively deleting files in Windows

Due to a magical feature of OneNote software, one day I noticed lots of files with extension '.onetoc2' in one of the folder and each of it's subfolders. 

I found the below solution using wildcards with 'del' command and '/S' switch to remove them completely and recursively - 

1.  Open command prompt and go to home directory where you want to perform this operation
            cd MyFiles

2.  Run the below command –
del /S  *.onetoc2


PS: There's a huge difference between running del /S *.onetoc2 and del /S C:\*.onetoc2. 
The first command is executed from the current location, whereas the second is executed on the whole drive.


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