Had similar timing for DEL, so it looks like Powershell is as good as cmd for this use case: timecmd "DEL /F /Q /S .m2c\*.* > NUL" command took 0:2:57

Had similar timing for DEL, so it looks like Powershell is as good as cmd for this use case: timecmd "DEL /F /Q /S .m2c\*.* > NUL" command took 0:2:57.60 (177.60s total)