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Okay.

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All right.

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We've covered inserting documents.

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We've covered updating documents.

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So for completion sake, let's talk about deleting documents.

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And really, it could not be easier.

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It turns out there's a rest verb for delete and all we have to do is use it so the
command will look

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something like this.

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If you know the document idea of the document you want to delete, just delete.

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Followed by the hostname that we're talking to for Elasticsearch, followed by the
index name in this

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case movies.

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And then the document that you want to delete.

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So let's say we want to delete documented five eight, five, five, nine.

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That's what the command would look like for that.

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It's just that simple.

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So this is going to be the quickest lecture in the world, guys.

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Let's just try it out hands on real quick and let's go delete something.

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All right, we're logged back in, so let's go ahead and delete The Dark Knight,
shall we?
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Not that we should.

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It's a really good movie, but let's make this a little bit more of a real world
scenario.

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You probably don't know the document ID for The Dark Knight off the top of your
head.

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Right.

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So oftentimes doing this will be sort of a two step approach.

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First, figuring out the document idea, the document that you want to delete, and
then issuing the

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actual delete command to delete that document ID.

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So first, let's search for The Dark Knight and we can do that like this curl does
get it right.

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7.020.1 cool and hundred slash movies, which is our index name.

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Again, underscore search question mark Q equals dark.

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So for the first time, we're doing a query for a search term here.

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And we didn't specify a pretty format, but we can still work out the results here.

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The Dark Knight, it looks like, is document ID 58559 based on those results.

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So with that number in hand, we can go ahead and delete it.

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Let's say curl bash x, delete 120 7.0.0.1 colon 1800 slash movies slash underscore
doc slash ideas

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five eight, five, five, nine.

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And we'll ask for pretty results.

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And it says it was successful so it was deleted.
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Let's try searching for it again and see what comes back.

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Nothing.

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No hits because it's gone.

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Cool.

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All right.

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So that's how deletion works again.

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Easiest thing in the world.

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And let's move on and do something more interesting with a little hands on exercise
next.