How to solve “The directory is not empty” error when running rmdir command in a batch script?

Question

I am making a batch script and part of the script is trying to remove a directory and all of its sub-directories. I am getting an intermittent error about a sub-directory not be

Answer 1

Similar to Harry Johnston's answer, I loop until it works.

set dirPath=C:\temp\mytest
:removedir
if exist "%dirPath%" (
    rd /s /q "%dirPath%" 
    goto removedir
)