Versioned Bucket Delete All Objects and bucket

Question

If I have a bucket that is versioned.  What CLI command can delete all versions of all objects as well as the bucket?  I ran the aws s3 rm command but it did not delete all versions of the objects.

Thanks

Riku_Kobayashi · Accepted Answer

Hello.

You cannot delete versioned bucket objects in bulk using the AWS CLI, so you need to create a shell script as shown below.  
However, while this method works if there are few objects, if there are tens of thousands of objects, I think it is easier to set up lifecycle rules to delete them.  
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/object-lifecycle-mgmt.html  
```
bucket=hoge-bucket && aws s3api list-object-versions --bucket $bucket | jq -r '.Versions[] | [.Key, .VersionId] |@tsv' | while read k v;do aws s3api delete-object --bucket $bucket --key $k --version-id $v; done
```

Versioned Bucket Delete All Objects and bucket

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