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Remove items from a bupstash repository.

bupstash rm [OPTIONS] QUERY...

bupstash rm removes items from a bupstash repository.

Items that are removed are not immediately deleted, instead the deletion and space reclamation is scheduled for the next time the garbage collector bupstash-gc(1) is run.

Only the metadata needs to be decrypted to remove items, so a metadata key is sufficient for item deletion, even without access to the data decryption key.

For full documentation on the query language, see bupstash-query-language(7).

``` $ id=$(bupstash put ./some-data)

$ bupstash rm id=$id

$ bupstash rm name=backups.tar

$ bupstash rm --allow-many name=´*.tar´ and older-than 30d

$ bupstash rm --allow-many id="*" ```

The rm command uses the same query caching mechanisms as bupstash-list(1), check that page for more information on the query cache.

The repository to connect to. May be of the form ssh://$SERVER/$PATH for remote repositories if ssh access is configured. If not specified, is set to BUPSTASH_REPOSITORY.
Key used to decrypt metadata when executing a query. If not set, defaults to BUPSTASH_KEY.
Path to the query-cache file, defaults to one of the following, in order, provided the appropriate environment variables are set, $BUPSTASH_QUERY_CACHE, $XDG_CACHE_HOME/.cache/bupstash/bupstash.qcache or $HOME/.cache/bupstash/bupstash.qcache.
The query will not decrypt any metadata, allowing you to list items you do not have a decryption key for. This option inserts the pseudo query tag ´decryption-key-id´.
Remove items with IDs read from stdin, one per line, instead of executing a query.
By default bupstash refuses to remove multiple items from a single query, this flag disables that safety feature.
Display and search against timestamps in utc time instead of local time.
Suppress progress indicators (Progress indicators are also suppressed when stderr is not an interactive terminal).
Be quiet, implies --no-progress.

The repository to connect to. May be of the form ssh://$SERVER/$PATH for remote repositories if ssh access is configured.
A command to run to connect to an instance of bupstash-serve(1). This allows more complex connections to the repository for less common use cases.
Path to a primary key that will be used for decrypting data and metadata.
A command to run that must print the key data, can be used instead of BUPSTASH_KEY to fetch the key from arbitrary locations such as the network or other secret storage.
Path to the query cache file to use.

$ bupstash rm id=14ebd2073b258b1f55c5bbc889c49db4

$ bupstash rm id="*"

$ bupstash rm name=backup.tar and older-than 30d

$ bupstash list --format=jsonl1 \ | custom-json-filter \ | bupstash rm --ids-from-stdin

bupstash(1), bupstash-list(1), bupstash-gc(1), bupstash-query-language(7)