# rpk group offset-delete

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title: rpk group offset-delete
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<!-- Source: https://docs.redpanda.com/cloud-data-platform/reference/rpk/rpk-group/rpk-group-offset-delete.md -->

Forcefully delete offsets for a kafka group.

The broker will only allow the request to succeed if the group is in a dead state (no subscriptions) or there are no subscriptions for offsets for topic/partitions requested to be deleted.

Use either the `--from-file` or the `--topic` option. They are mutually exclusive. To indicate which topics or topic partitions you’d like to remove offsets from use the `--topic` (`-t`) flag, followed by a comma separated list of partition ids. Supplying no list will delete all offsets for all partitions for a given topic.

You may also provide a text file to indicate topic/partition tuples. Use the `--from-file` flag for this option. The file must contain lines of topic/partitions separated by a tab or space. Example:

topic\_a 0 topic\_a 1 topic\_b 0.

## [](#usage)Usage

```bash
rpk group offset-delete <group> --from-file FILE --topic foo:0,1,2 [flags]
```

## [](#flags)Flags

| Value | Type | Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| --format | string | Output format (json,yaml,text,wide,help). (New in v26.2.1) |
| -f, --from-file | string | Path to a file containing topic/partition tuples for which to delete offsets. |
| -t, --topic | stringArray | topic:partition_id (repeatable; for example, -t foo:0,1,2). |

## [](#global-flags)Global flags

| Value | Type | Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| --config | string | Redpanda or rpk config file; default search paths are ~/.config/rpk/rpk.yaml, $PWD/redpanda.yaml, and /etc/redpanda/redpanda.yaml. |
| -X, --config-opt | stringArray | Override rpk configuration settings; -X help for detail or -X list for terser detail. |
| --ignore-profile | bool | Ignore rpk.yaml and redpanda.yaml; use default settings. |
| --profile | string | rpk profile to use. |
| -v, --verbose | bool | Enable verbose logging. |