# What is the possible way to delete this index ONLY? **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [January 11, 2017, 9:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-the-possible-way-to-delete-this-index-only/71283 "2017-01-11T21:56:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![chunji08](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ee7513/32.png) [@chunji08](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/chunji08)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2017, 9:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-the-possible-way-to-delete-this-index-only/71283/1 "2017-01-11T21:56:38Z")
Hi there, I have created one index by accident =\> "dte-%{jobid}". So currently if I was to check all the indexes by this server, that is what I see now: curl -XGET "[http://localhost:9200/\_cat/indices](http://localhost:9200/_cat/indices) ==\> " % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 101 2541 101 2541 0 0 76285 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 79406 green open dte-36359429 YYu0kcH4QeajC6QBfyAoIg 5 1 1543198 0 740.1mb 370mb green open dte-36503651 Tj0aph4\_Ruq-iTQQrE\_eRw 5 1 146423 0 68.3mb 34.2mb green open dte-%{jobid} kG3sh3w5SA6iDGrC3YxAEg 5 1 3066 0 2.3mb 1.2mb ... ". And if I was to delete that one by this command, ==\>\> curl -X DELETE "[http://localhost:9200/dte-%{jobid}](http://localhost:9200/dte-%25%7Bjobid%7D)", I got this response: " {"error":{"root\_cause":[{"type":"illegal\_argument\_exception","reason":"invalid escape sequence `%jo' at index 5 of: dte-\\%jobid"}],"type":"illegal_argument_exception","reason":"invalid escape sequence`%jo' at index 5 of: dte-\%jobid"},"status":400} " Does anyone know what is the possible way to have this removed only ? Thanks a lot. Chun ---
**Author:** ![jasontedor](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jasontedor/32/66992_2.png) [@jasontedor](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jasontedor)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2017, 2:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-the-possible-way-to-delete-this-index-only/71283/2 "2017-01-12T02:55:43Z")
Just percent-encode the URL: ```bash $ curl -XDELETE localhost:9200/dte-%25%7bjobid%7d?pretty=1 ``` ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2017, 2:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-the-possible-way-to-delete-this-index-only/71283/3 "2017-02-09T02:56:19Z")
This topic was automatically closed 28 days after the last reply. New replies are no longer allowed.