{"id":4480,"date":"2011-11-12T19:16:32","date_gmt":"2011-11-12T13:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2thenew.online\/blog\/?p=4480"},"modified":"2016-12-19T15:30:12","modified_gmt":"2016-12-19T10:00:12","slug":"how-to-delete-all-contentsobjects-of-amazon-s3-bucket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2thenew.online\/blog\/how-to-delete-all-contentsobjects-of-amazon-s3-bucket\/","title":{"rendered":"How to delete all contents\/objects of Amazon S3 bucket"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you have an S3 bucket with a huge number of files, and you want to delete the bucket, you need to empty the bucket first. If the bucket has a handful of files, then it is easy enough from the AWS interface, but if the bucket has a large number of files, then AWS interface is not an option; and you must use s3cmd<\/a> or may be some other tool which allows this.
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\ns3cmd is a command-line tool for manipulating S3 buckets and objects; and as you would expect, it does have a way to recursively delete all objects in a bucket.
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s3cmd del –recursive –force <bucket_url><\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n

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What’s annoying is that S3 does not provide this capability natively. The above command probably simply lists all the objects first internally; and then makes a delete call on each object.<\/div>\n

<\/br>It took me a while to figure this out, because it does not seem to be documented, I found this in one of the comments on S3cmd page<\/a>.
\n<\/br>-Deepak<\/p>\n

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