How to delete alll es index templates ? (Elasticserch 6.1.3)

Question

I try to delete all templates in my local instance .but it fail and I got this message .How do I delete all templates ? I don't understand this error.

My query :

DELETE /_template

error :

{
 "error": "Incorrect HTTP method for uri [/_template] and method [DELETE], allowed: [GET]",
"status": 405}

You have to specify template name also like `DELETE /_template/temp1`. This is why you are getting the error — Arpit Solanki, Feb 07 '18 at 07:27

score 4 · Answer 1 · edited Sep 30 '19 at 14:07

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this seemed to work for me on linux to delete all templates:

curl -X DELETE "http://localhost:9200/_template/*"

this is with elasticsearch 2.4

edited Sep 30 '19 at 14:07

Dharman

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answered Sep 30 '19 at 13:48

AC.

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score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 07 '18 at 08:52

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There is no such possibility to remove all the templates at once.

You can first get all the existing templates list with:

GET /_template

and next remove one by one using their names:

DELETE /_template/NAME_OF_THE_FIRST_TEMPLATE
DELETE /_template/NAME_OF_THE_SECOND_TEMPLATE
DELETE /_template/NAME_OF_THE_THIRD_TEMPLATE
...

Source: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/indices-templates.html

answered Feb 07 '18 at 08:52

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Above but with curl, jq and xargs `curl http://localhost:9200/_template | jq -r 'keys[]' | xargs -I {} curl -XDELETE "http://localhost:9200/_template/{}"` – avalanchy Aug 18 '23 at 12:34

How to delete alll es index templates ? (Elasticserch 6.1.3)

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