How to delete keys

Describes a way to delete etcd keys

Prerequisites

• Install etcd and etcdctl

Add or delete keys

del to remove the specified key or range of keys:

1. etcdctl del $KEY [$END_KEY]

Options

1. --prefix[=false]: delete keys with matching prefix
2. --prev-kv[=false]: return deleted key-value pairs
3. --from-key[=false]: delete keys that are greater than or equal to the given key using byte compare
4. --range[=false]: delete range of keys without delay

Options inherited from parent commands

1. --endpoints="127.0.0.1:2379": gRPC endpoints

Examples

1. etcdctl --endpoints=$ENDPOINTS put key myvalue
2. etcdctl --endpoints=$ENDPOINTS del key

4. etcdctl --endpoints=$ENDPOINTS put k1 value1
5. etcdctl --endpoints=$ENDPOINTS put k2 value2
6. etcdctl --endpoints=$ENDPOINTS del k --prefix

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