Deleting multiple promotion packages with CLI?

[RichardP]

Hello, 

I am using this command to delete promotion packages in Viya 3.4. 

sas-admin transfer delete --id 15340677-581a-4635-b548-4df207226714

I would like to simultaneously delete multiple packages? Does anyone know if this is this possible with this command or do I need to write a script for this?

regards,

Richard

[gwootton]

The sas-admin transfer delete command only accepts one ID or URI at a time, so if you had multiple packages you would need to run each separately.

[EyalGonen]

Hi @RichardP 

I struggled with the same issue and came up with this script that seems to work. Please take care before using it and make sure you have a backup.

Note that you can replace the jq '.items[].id' with jq '.items[0].id' to test deleting only the first package instead of all packages at once.

The script assumes that you created a profile+authenticated with "sas-admin" prior to running this.

#!/bin/bash

echo "List of packages to be deleted:"
/opt/sas/viya/home/bin/sas-admin transfer list

echo "Proceed with delete? (Y/n)"
read vproceed

if [[ "$vproceed" == "Y"]]; then
    echo "Deleting packages..."
    for i in $(/opt/sas/viya/home/bin/sas-admin --output json transfer list | jq '.items[].id' | sed 's/\"//g') 
    do
        yes | /opt/sas/viya/home/bin/sas-admin transfer delete --id $i
    done
else
    echo "Exiting without deleting packages..."
fi

Eyal