Mark Logic Command: del

Deletes documents on a Mark Logic server

del [-c uri|-connect uri] document [document ...]

Deletes documents residing on a Mark Logic server.
Documents are specified by the URI used to store the document

-c,-connect uri	Use the connection string instead of $MLCONNECT
document	uri of the document to delete

Assuming the prefix "ml" is imported as the marklogic module, delete the test.xml document

ml:del test.xml

To delete a directory use deldir

del is implemented as an xsh script which simply calls query. The source of the script is

import module ml=org.xmlsh.marklogic 
for uri ; do
   ml:query -q "xdmp:document-delete(\"$uri\")"
done

xmlsh - XML Shell : MarkLogicDel