Old DOS commands that prompt y/n

Question

My organization assigns every employee a personal drive on a network share. For some reason, be it old software installs or bad workstation backups, many users now have a Windows directory on their network share that we'd like to get rid of. Easy to script,
right? I already did that:
$userfolders = gci \\server1\users\*\
$count1 = 0
foreach ($userfolder in $userfolders){
$windowsfolders = gci $userfolder.FullName -directory | where-object { $_.name -like "windows" }
foreach ($windowsfolder in $windowsfolders){
$fullname = $windowsfolder.fullname
remove-item $fullname -recurse -force
$count1++
write-host "$count1 Windows folders removed"
and it was successful on 90% of the user drives, but quite a few users have old IE temp files with more than enough characters in their name to be over 260 characters and Powershell won't remove those. CMD using rd /S will, but that prompts you "Are
you sure? Y/N"
So how do I pass a "y" to a CMD command in Powershell?
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Answer 1

For the record, passing old DOS commands in Powershell is a PITA. I ended up having to do this, because the "RD" command can't use a UNC:
$userfolders = gci \\pfil9903\users\*\
foreach ($userfolder in $userfolders){
$windowsfolders = gci $userfolder.FullName -directory | where-object { $_.name -like "windows" }
foreach ($windowsfolder in $windowsfolders){
$fullname = $windowsfolder.fullname
#remove-item $fullname -recurse -force
CMD /C "net use /delete z:"
CMD /C "net use z: $fullname"
CMD /C "rd /S /q z:\windows"
CMD /C "net use /delete z:"
But now I'm getting errors about z: still being in use:
CMD : The system cannot find the file specified.
At \\server\users\user1\Powershell\Users Windows Directory Removal.ps1:10 char:9
+ CMD /C "rd /S /q z:\windows"
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (The system cann...file specified.:String) [], RemoteException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : NativeCommandError
There are open files and/or incomplete directory searches pending on the connection to z:.
Any ideas?
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