Bulk Deleting All Objects in a Bucket

On Private Cloud Appliance, you can delete all objects in a bucket using the OCI CLI.

Caution

You can't recover a deleted object unless you have object versioning enabled. See Managing Object Versioning for details.

You can't delete an object that has an active retention rule. See Defining Retention Rules for details.

Using the OCI CLI

Use the oci os object bulk-delete command and required parameters to delete an object or folder.

To see a list of the files impacted by a bulk delete command without actually deleting the files, use the --dry-run option. Perform the command without the --dry-run option to bulk delete all objects in the bucket.

oci os object bulk-delete --namespace-name <object_storage_namespace> --bucket-name <bucket_name> --dry-run

For a complete list of CLI commands, flags, and options, see the Command Line Reference.