clear

This command deletes documents from the document cache.

Syntax

clear [URL-match] [on | off] [cache-key]

Parameters

URL-match: Specifies the shell-style regular expression that identifies documents in the document cache. The default value is *, which matches all entries.
on: Indicates that matching documents are marked as expired.
off: Indicates that matching documents are deleted, which is the default behavior.
URL-match: Specifies the shell-style regular expression that identifies documents in the document cache. The default value is *, which matches all entries.
cache-key: Specifies the exact match for the cache key to restrict the URL match to only documents with this cache key. This parameter is valid only when you include the URL-match parameter. The default value is *, which ignores the cache key.

Guidelines

The clear command deletes or marks as expired all or specified documents from the document cache. When specified without parameters, all documents are deleted.

If you need to delete documents that include brackets, you must escape these characters with two backward slashes. For example, use \\[abc\\] to match [abc].

Examples

Delete all documents from the document cache.

# clear
Document cache : cleared documents matching the '*' pattern and the '*' cache key
# cancel

Deletes all GIF documents from the document cache.

clear *.gif
Document cache : cleared documents matching the '*.gif' pattern and the '*' cache key
# cancel

Marks all GIF documents in the document cache as expired.

# clear *.gif on
Document cache : Invalidated documents in the document cache that match the '*.gif' pattern 
and the '*' cache key
# cancel

Delete all GIF documents in the document cache with the key1 cache key.

clear *.gif off key1
Document cache : cleared documents matching the '*.gif' pattern and the 'key1' cache key
# cancel