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+# cli53-remove
+
+Mass records/zones deletion process in AWS Route53 is very annoying process. If you're using AWS webui and you need to delete zone, you have to remove DNS-records one by one first to get a possibility to remove zone. To automate this I've created simple bash script over [cli53](https://github.com/barnybug/cli53)  utility for mass removing route53 zones with their records
+
+## READ FIRST!!!
+
+  - Current version of script was tested to work against cli53 v0.8.16 (but might work with other versions)
+  - Use script carefully on your own risk, because under some circumstances or you might delete something useful :D
+
+## HOW-TO:
+First you need to install cli53 utility using instructions [here](https://github.com/barnybug/cli53). Then download script, make it executable. Then run it and specify domain names or part of domain names of zones you want to delete as arguments to 
+
+```sh
+$ ./cli53-remove.sh domain1 domain2.com 3dom
+```
+In example above all zones containing in its name "domain1" or "domain2.com" "3dom" will be removed from your route53. Or just
+```sh
+$ ./cli53-remove.sh domain5.com
+```
+
+If you need only remove records, but keep zone itself, you can comment out following line in script
+```
+cli53 delete ${line};
+```

cli53-remove.sh

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+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+for var in "$@"
+do
+  cli53 list | tr -s ' ' | grep -e "$var" | cut -f 2 -d ' ' |
+  while read line;
+  do
+      printf "Processing ${line} \n";
+      cli53 rrpurge ${line} --confirm;
+      cli53 delete ${line};
+  done
+done