You can delete individually, all (*:* query) or by specific query. So, if there is no common query pattern you may need to do a multi-id query - something like "id:(id1 id2 id3 id4)" which does require you knowing the IDs.
Regards, Alex. Personal: http://www.outerthoughts.com/ and @arafalov Solr resources and newsletter: http://www.solr-start.com/ and @solrstart Solr popularizers community: https://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=6713853 On 24 October 2014 15:44, Olivier Austina <olivier.aust...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > This is newbie question. I have indexed some documents using some XML files > as indicating in the tutorial > <http://lucene.apache.org/solr/4_10_1/tutorial.html> with the command : > > java -jar post.jar *.xml > > I have seen how to delete an index for one document but how to delete > all indexes > for documents within an XML file. For example if I have indexed some > files A, B, C, D etc., > how to delete indexes of documents from file C. Is there a command > like above or other > solution without using individual ID? Thank you. > > > Regards > Olivier