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# /delete/files

```
URL: http://<db.host>:<db.port>/delete/files
```

Deletes one or more files from [KiFS](../../tools/kifs/).

## Input Parameter Description

<ParamField body="file_names" type="array of strings">
  An array of names of files to be deleted. File paths may contain wildcard characters after the KiFS directory delimiter.

  Accepted wildcard characters are asterisk (\*) to represent any string of zero or more characters, and question mark (?) to indicate a single character.
</ParamField>

<ParamField body="options" type="map of string to strings">
  Optional parameters.

  The default value is an empty map ( \{} ).

  <Expandable title="options">
    <ParamField body="no_error_if_not_exists">
      If *true*, no error is returned if a specified file does not exist.

      The default value is `false`.

      The supported values are:

      * true
      * false
    </ParamField>
  </Expandable>
</ParamField>

## Output Parameter Description

The Kinetica server embeds the endpoint response inside a standard response structure which contains status information and the actual response to the query.  Here is a description of the various fields of the wrapper:

<ResponseField name="status" type="String">
  'OK' or 'ERROR'
</ResponseField>

<ResponseField name="message" type="String">
  Empty if success or an error message
</ResponseField>

<ResponseField name="data_type" type="String">
  'delete\_files\_response' or 'none' in case of an error
</ResponseField>

<ResponseField name="data" type="String">
  Empty string
</ResponseField>

<ResponseField name="data_str" type="JSON or String">
  This embedded JSON represents the result of the /delete/files endpoint:

  <Expandable title="data_str">
    <ResponseField name="file_names" type="array of strings">
      Names of the files deleted from KiFS.
    </ResponseField>

    <ResponseField name="info" type="map of string to strings">
      Additional information.
    </ResponseField>
  </Expandable>

  Empty string in case of an error.
</ResponseField>