ECACCE...MDELETE(1p)

💖 ecaccess-file-mdelete(1p) — the girlies' guide to deleting a WHOLE BUNCH of ECaccess files at once

okay bestie, so picture this: you've got a million files to yeet and you are NOT about to click through them one by one. that's literally what ecaccess-file-mdelete is for. multiple files. one command. main character energy. 👑

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✨ NAME ✨

ecaccess-file-mdelete — Delete Multiple ECaccess Files at once 🗑️💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

ecaccess-file-mdelete -version|-help|-manual

ecaccess-file-mdelete [-debug] [-force] target-ecaccess-file [...]

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Allow deleting Multiple ECaccess Files at once. (yes that's the whole point, we're not doing this one file at a time, that's giving 2019.)

Each target-ecaccess-file is in the form [domain:][/user-id/]path. Please read the "Shell commands -> File Management" section of the "ecaccess" guide for more information on the ECaccess File System. no cap, it's all in there 📚

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• target-ecaccess-file [...] — The name(s) of the ECaccess File(s) to delete. as many as you want, the [...] is literally screaming "bring friends" 🫶

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💜 OPTIONS 💜

• -force — Overrides the interactive mode and delete each file without prompting. it's giving "yes I'm sure, stop asking me" 😤
• -version — Display version number and exits.
• -help — Print a brief help message and exits.
• -manual — Prints the manual page and exits.
• -retry count — Number of SSL connection retries per 5s to ECMWF. This parameter only apply to the initial SSL connection initiated by the command to the ECMWF server. It does not apply to all the subsequent requests made afteward as it is mainly targeting errors that can happen from time to time during the SSL handshake. Default is no retry. 🫠 (note that afteward is their spelling and we respect it fr fr)
• -debug — Display the SOAP and SSL messages exchanged. ngl this one is for the nosy girls and I love that for us 🔍

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🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

ecaccess-file-mdelete -force 'home:/xyz/bin/*.bin'

Delete the *.bin Files in the $HOME/bin directory of the user xyz without prompting. squeaky clean, zero questions asked ✨

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⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

ecaccess-file-delete, ecaccess-file-get, ecaccess-file-mget, ecaccess-file-modtime, ecaccess-file-mput, ecaccess-file-rmdir, ecaccess-file-copy, ecaccess-file-dir, ecaccess-file-chmod, ecaccess-file-mkdir, ecaccess-file-move, ecaccess-file-put, ecaccess-file-size and ecaccess.

the whole squad, all linked up, iykyk 💖

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okay that's the whole page bestie — this manual was served up by perl v5.40.1, dated 2025-10-22, and it's the ECACCE...MDELETE(1p) page from the User Contributed Perl Documentation. go forth and delete responsibly, mwah 🎀✨