Using grep to remove specific objects in GCS with gsutil -rm

Question

I have a bucket with many objects, and I can successfully use grep to take the specific objects and output them into a text file. I want to use gsutil -rm and read the text file line by line and remove the corresponding object in gcs, but how can I go about doing this?

Or is there a way to directly remove objects from GCS using gsutil -rm and grep? Thanks!

Answer 1

Assuming you output the list of objects to remove to the file remove.txt, you could use this command to remove the named objects:

gsutil -m rm -I < remove.txt