# rpk group offset-delete

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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 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| -f, --from-file | string | File of topic/partition tuples for which to delete offsets for. |
| -h, --help | - | Help for offset-delete. |
| -t, --topic | stringArray | topic:partition_id (repeatable; e.g. -t foo:0,1,2 ). |
| --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. |