Docs Self-Managed Reference rpk Commands rpk topic rpk topic delete This is documentation for Self-Managed v24.1. To view the latest available version of the docs, see v24.2. rpk topic delete Delete topics. This command deletes all requested topics, printing the success or fail status per topic. The --regex or -r flag opts into parsing the input topics as regular expressions and deleting any non-internal topic that matches any of expressions. The input expressions are wrapped with ^ and $ so that the expression must match the whole topic name (which also prevents accidental delete-everything mistakes). The topic list command accepts the same input regex format as this delete command. If you want to check what your regular expressions will delete before actually deleting them, you can check the output of rpk topic list -r. Examples Deletes topics foo and bar: rpk topic delete foo bar Deletes any topic starting with f and any topics ending in r: rpk topic delete -r '^f.*' '.*r$' Deletes all topics: rpk topic delete -r '.*' Deletes any one-character topics: Usage rpk topic delete [TOPICS...] [flags] Flags Value Type Description -h, --help - Help for delete. -r, --regex - Parse topics as regex; delete any topic that matches any input topic expression. --config string Redpanda or rpk config file; default search paths are /var/lib/redpanda/.config/rpk/rpk.yaml, $PWD/redpanda.yaml, and /etc/redpanda/redpanda.yaml. -X, --config-opt stringArray Override rpk configuration settings. See rpk -X or execute rpk -X help for inline detail or rpk -X list for terser detail. --profile string Profile to use. See rpk profile for more details. -v, --verbose - Enable verbose logging. Back to top × Simple online edits For simple changes, such as fixing a typo, you can edit the content directly on GitHub. Edit on GitHub Or, open an issue to let us know about something that you want us to change. Open an issue Contribution guide For extensive content updates, or if you prefer to work locally, read our contribution guide . Was this helpful? thumb_up thumb_down group Ask in the community mail Share your feedback group_add Make a contribution rpk topic create rpk topic describe