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With rabbitmqadmin you can remove them with this one-liner:

rabbitmqadmin -f tsv -q list queues name | while read queue; do rabbitmqadmin -q delete queue name=${queue}; done

Try this:

 rabbitmqadmin list queues name | awk '{print $2}' | xargs -I qn rabbitmqadmin delete queue name=qn

Actually super easy with management plugin and policies:

• Goto Management Console (localhost:15672)




• Goto Admin tab




• Goto Policies tab(on the right side)




• Add Policy



• 
  

  Fill Fields

  
  
  
  
  
  • 
    Virtual Host: Select
  
  
  • 
    Name: Expire All Policies(Delete Later)
  
  
  • 
    Pattern: .*
  
  
  • 
    Apply to: Queues
  
  
  • 
    Definition: expires with value 1 (change type from String to Number)
  
  
  
  



• Save



• Checkout Queues tab again


• All Queues must be deleted


• 
  And don't forget remove policy!!!!!!.

I made a deleteRabbitMqQs.sh, which accepts arguments to search the list of queues for, selecting only ones matching the pattern you want. If you offer no arguments, it will delete them all! It shows you the list of queues its about to delete, letting you quit before doing anything destructive.

for word in "$@"

do

        args=true

        newQueues=$(rabbitmqctl list_queues name | grep "$word")

        queues="$queues

$newQueues"

done

if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then

        queues=$(rabbitmqctl list_queues name | grep -v "...")

fi



queues=$(echo "$queues" | sed '/^[[:space:]]*$/d')



if [ "x$queues" == "x" ]; then

        echo "No queues to delete, giving up."

        exit 0

fi



read -p "Deleting the following queues:

${queues}

[CTRL+C quit | ENTER proceed]

"



while read -r line; do

        rabbitmqadmin delete queue name="$line"

done <<< "$queues"

If you want different matching against the arguments you pass in, you can alter the grep in line four. When deleting all queues, it won't delete ones with three consecutive spaces in them, because I figured that eventuality would be rarer than people who have rabbitmqctl printing its output out in different languages.

Enjoy!

If you're trying to delete queues because they're unused and you don't want to reset, one option is to set the queue TTL very low via a policy, wait for the queues to be auto-deleted once the TTL is passed and then remove the policy (https://www.rabbitmq.com/ttl.html).

rabbitmqctl.bat set_policy delq ".*" '{"expires": 1}' --apply-to queues

To remove the policy

rabbitmqctl clear_policy delq

Note that this only works for unused queues

Original info here: http://rabbitmq.1065348.n5.nabble.com/Deleting-all-queues-in-rabbitmq-td30933.html

If you don't have rabbitmqadmin installed, try to purge queues with rabbitmqctl:


rabbitmqctl list_queues | awk '{ print $1 }' | xargs -L1 rabbitmqctl purge_queue


Here is a way to do it with PowerShell. the URL may need to be updated

$cred = Get-Credential

 iwr -ContentType 'application/json' -Method Get -Credential $cred   'http://localhost:15672/api/queues' | % { 

    ConvertFrom-Json  $_.Content } | % { $_ } | ? { $_.messages -gt 0} | % {

    iwr  -method DELETE -Credential $cred  -uri  $("http://localhost:15672/api/queues/{0}/{1}" -f  [System.Web.HttpUtility]::UrlEncode($_.vhost),  $_.name)

 }

You can use rabbitmqctl eval as below:

rabbitmqctl eval 'IfUnused = false, IfEmpty = true, MatchRegex = 

<<"^prefix-">>, [rabbit_amqqueue:delete(Q, IfUnused, IfEmpty) || Q <- 

rabbit_amqqueue:list(), re:run(element(4, element(2, Q)), MatchRegex) 

=/= nomatch ].' 

The above will delete all empty queues in all vhosts that have a name
beginning with "prefix-".
You can edit the variables IfUnused, IfEmpty,
and MatchRegex as per your requirement.

Removing all queues using rabbitmqctl one liner

rabbitmqctl list_queues | awk '{ print $1 }' | sed 's/Listing//' | xargs -L1 rabbitmqctl purge_queue

In case you only want to purge the queues which are not empty (a lot faster):

rabbitmqctl list_queues | awk '$2!=0 { print $1 }' | sed 's/Listing//' | xargs -L1 rabbitmqctl purge_queue

For me, it takes 2-3 seconds to purge a queue (both empty and non-empty ones), so iterating through 50 queues is such a pain while I just need to purge 10 of them (40/50 are empty).

To list queues,

./rabbitmqadmin -f tsv -q list queues

To delete a queue,

./rabbitmqadmin delete queue name=name_of_queue

Here is a faster version (using parallel install sudo apt-get install parallel) expanding on the excellent answer by @admenva


parallel -j 50 rabbitmqadmin -H YOUR_HOST_OR_LOCALHOST -q delete queue name={} ::: $(rabbitmqadmin -H YOUR_HOST_OR_LOCALHOST -f tsv -q list queues name)


This commands deletes all your queues

python rabbitmqadmin.py 

  -H YOURHOST -u guest -p guest -f bash list queues | 

xargs -n1 | 

xargs -I{} 

  python rabbitmqadmin.py -H YOURHOST -u guest -p guest delete queue name={}

This script is super simple because it uses -f bash, which outputs the queues as a list.

Then we use xargs -n1 to split that up into multiple variables

Then we use xargs -I{} that will run the command following, and replace {} in the command.

You need not reset rabbitmq server to delete non-durable queues. Simply stop the server and start again and it will remove all the non-durable queues available.

There's a way to remove all queues and exchanges without scripts and full reset. You can just delete and re-create a virtual host from admin interface. This will work even for vhost /.

The only thing you'll need to restore is permissions for the newly created vhost.

Okay, important qualifier for this answer:
The question does ask to use either rabbitmqctl OR rabbitmqadmin to solve this, my answer needed to use both. Also, note that this was tested on MacOS 10.12.6 and the versions of the rabbitmqctl and rabbitmqadmin that are installed when installing rabbitmq with Homebrew and which is identified with brew list --versions as rabbitmq 3.7.0

rabbitmqctl list_queues -p <VIRTUAL_HOSTNAME> name | sed 1,2d | xargs -I qname rabbitmqadmin --vhost <VIRTUAL_HOSTNAME> delete queue name=qname

I tried rabbitmqctl and reset commands but they are very slow.

This is the fastest way I found (replace your username and password):

#!/bin/bash



# Stop on error

set -eo pipefail



USER='guest'

PASSWORD='guest'



curl -sSL -u $USER:$PASSWORD http://localhost:15672/api/queues/%2f/ | jq '..name' | sed 's/"//g' | xargs -L 1 -I@ curl -XDELETE -sSL -u $USER:$PASSWORD http://localhost:15672/api/queues/%2f/@

# To also delete exchanges uncomment next line

# curl -sSL -u $USER:$PASSWORD http://localhost:15672/api/exchanges/%2f/ | jq '..name' | sed 's/"//g' | xargs -L 1 -I@ curl -XDELETE -sSL -u $USER:$PASSWORD http://localhost:15672/api/exchanges/%2f/@

Note: This only works with the default vhost /

Another option is to delete the vhost associated with the queues. This will delete everything associated with the vhost, so be warned, but it is easy and fast.

_{NOTE: the RabbitMQ team monitors the rabbitmq-users mailing list and only sometimes answers questions on StackOverflow.}

rabbitmqadmin list queues|awk 'NR>3{print $4}'|head -n-1|xargs -I qname rabbitmqadmin delete queue name=qname