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I'm trying to delete all records from Solr. I can do this in the browser by posting the following URL

http://localhost:8983/solr/update?stream.body=<delete><query>*:*</query></delete>

However I wish to do it using the commmand line. I've installed cURL and have tested that the command line understands curl commands. But when I issue the following command

curl http://localhost:8983/solr/update --data '<delete><query>*:*</query></delete>' -H 'Content-type:text/xml; charset=utf-8'

I receive the error

< was unexpected at this time

I have tried various different variations using single or double quotes to wrap the xml in, but nothing seems to work. Can anybody shed any light?

Thanks in advance.

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Here is an example of how to delete a solr index with curl:

https://gist.github.com/nz/673027

For windows, check this out:

How to post XML data with cURL using cmd in windows 7?

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Thanks, but this still yields the same error. –  Linda Keating Jul 19 at 18:20
 
What OS are you on? What shell, if on unix? Do you have wget available? –  aet Jul 19 at 18:24
 
Seems like you might be on windows. Could you try " around the xml instead of '? –  aet Jul 19 at 18:32
 
Hi I'm using Windows 7 and the command prompt and no I haven't heard of wget before? –  Linda Keating Jul 19 at 18:32
 
I thought I had tried that already, but I tried it again, and this time it worked. Thankyou! –  Linda Keating Jul 19 at 18:37
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Try these parameters

commit=true -H "Content-Type: text/xml" --data-binary '<delete><query>*:*</query></delete>'
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