Delete all resources via OC CLI with name contain some words

Question

I am looking for a command to delete all resources in openshift, with name contain some words.

I found this but NOT specific to mine. POD delete

I tried below

oc get all -- selector | awk '/^<some word>/{system("oc delete all --selector " $1)}'

it gives below error though. Other thing search should be any part of the name.(not just beginning)

error: you must specify only one resource

Further I noticed below command won't delete configmap

oc delete all --selector app=<app_name> -o name

Hi, I would try with `oc get all -oname | grep -i blaah | xargs oc delete` — Suresh Vishnoi, May 08 '21 at 12:36
@SureshVishnoi This work perfectly, only thing is it doesn't delete the config map. Is that `oc delete` restriction? — Shabar, May 09 '21 at 09:04
I think Configmap and Secrets are not part of the `all` groups. — Suresh Vishnoi, May 09 '21 at 16:11
If you wanna understand further why all does not show all of the resources, check out here https://github.com/kubernetes/kubectl/issues/151 — Suresh Vishnoi, May 09 '21 at 16:26

Suresh Vishnoi · Accepted Answer · 2023-03-03T17:40:06.193

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As mentioned in above comment sections.

oc get all -oname | grep -i “blaah" | xargs oc delete will delete most of the namespaced resources such as pod,replicaset,deployment,service. However, ConfigMap ,Secret and CRDs won’t be deleted as they do not belong to all Category.

edited Mar 03 '23 at 17:40

answered May 09 '21 at 16:19

Suresh Vishnoi

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Annoying but simple way to extend the set of resources is using commas: `oc get all,configmap,pvc -oname` – Adam Ducho Mar 03 '23 at 14:20
yea, there must be a reason for not including these resources in the `all` category. – Suresh Vishnoi Mar 03 '23 at 17:40

Delete all resources via OC CLI with name contain some words

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