---
name: "gnunet-delete"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "gnunet"
version: "0.6.6b-4"
release: "Debian 3.1 (Sarge)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/gnunet-delete"
---

# gnunet-delete(1)

a command line interface for deleting indexed files from GNUnet

## NAME

gnunet-delete - a command line interface for deleting indexed files from GNUnet

## SYNOPSIS

**gnunet-delete** \[*OPTIONS*\] -f FILENAME

## DESCRIPTION

gnunet-delete is used for deleting indexed files from GNUnet.

- **-h**, **--help**

  print help page

- **-c** *FILENAME*, **--config=FILENAME**

  use config file (defaults: ~/.gnunet/gnunet.conf)

- **-v**, **--version**

  print the version number

- **-V**, **--verbose**

  be berbose; prints progress information and the hash-pair, CRC and filesize that can be used to download the file

- **-f** *FILENAME*, **--file=FILENAME**

  delete FILENAME (obligatory)

- **-L** *LOGLEVEL*, **--loglevel=LOGLEVEL**

  change the loglevel. Possible values for LOGLEVEL are NOTHING, FATAL, ERROR, FAILURE, WARNING, MESSAGE, INFO, DEBUG, CRON and EVERYTHING.

## NOTES

The option -f is used to specify the name of the file that should be deleted.

- You can only delete files that you indexed (or inserted?? FIXME!) and that you still have available locally in full. You should use gnunet-delete on files that you indexed (not inserted) and that you are going to delete locally.

  -

  ## FILES

- \~/.gnunet/gnunet.conf

  GNUnet configuration file

## REPORTING BUGS

Report bugs by using mantis \<http://www.ovmj.org/~mantis/\> or by sending electronic mail to \<gnunet-developers@gnu.org\>

## SEE ALSO

[**gnunet-gtk**(1)](/gnunet-gtk/1.md), [**gnunet-insert**(1)](/gnunet-insert/1.md), [**gnunet-gtk**(1)](/gnunet-gtk/1.md), [**gnunet-search**(1)](/gnunet-search/1.md), [**gnunet-download**(1)](/gnunet-download/1.md), [**gnunet.conf**(5)](/gnunet.conf/5.md), [**gnunetd**(1)](/gnunetd/1.md)