# How to delete measurements

**URL:** <https://community.influxdata.com/t/how-to-delete-measurements/26098>\
**Category:** InfluxDB 2\
**Tags:** influxdb, docker\
**Created:** [August 11, 2022, 3:28pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/how-to-delete-measurements/26098 "2022-08-11T15:28:22Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![tejasitraj](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/community.influxdata.com/tejasitraj/32/11664_2.png) [@tejasitraj](https://community.influxdata.com/u/tejasitraj)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2022, 3:28pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/how-to-delete-measurements/26098/1 "2022-08-11T15:28:22Z")

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Alright, I have tried and tried. How do I drop measurements??  
I am running influxdb v2.3.0 as a docker container.

I am trying to execute the following command in the command line of the container:

```auto
influx delete \
--bucket 'hassincontainer' \
--org 'myrgangen' \
--predicate ‘_measurement=“boltdb_reads_total”’ \
--start 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z \
--stop $(date +"%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ") \
--token 'Rv4hd3trQpvFHDnJM15wr9I32D3nTxxxxxxxxxcy26podf9be05c_mOO2FjoGMq2musXnA5MhYi9FFAOfeBQ=='

```

But get the following error:

```auto
Error: failed to delete data: 400 Bad Request: invalid request; error parsing request json: bad logical expression, at position 0

```

What am I doing wrong?? Thanks!

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**Author:** ![scott](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/community.influxdata.com/scott/32/16492_2.png) [@scott](https://community.influxdata.com/u/scott)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2022, 4:28pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/how-to-delete-measurements/26098/2 "2022-08-12T16:28:38Z")

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@tejasitraj This might just be a copy-paste-format error, but it looks like your delete predicate is using curly quotes (`“`). You should use straight quotes (`"`).

```nohighlight
--predicate '_measurement="boltdb_reads_total"' \

```

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**Author:** ![tejasitraj](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/community.influxdata.com/tejasitraj/32/11664_2.png) [@tejasitraj](https://community.influxdata.com/u/tejasitraj)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2022, 11:52pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/how-to-delete-measurements/26098/3 "2022-08-12T23:52:29Z")

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Oh wow thank you. That was a rather simple (read:silly) thing!