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<refentry lang="en">
    <refentryinfo>
        <productname>RabbitMQ C Client</productname>
        <authorgroup>
            <corpauthor>The RabbitMQ Team &lt;<ulink url="mailto:info@rabbitmq.com"><email>info@rabbitmq.com</email></ulink>&gt;</corpauthor>
        </authorgroup>
        <date>&date;</date>
    </refentryinfo>

    <refmeta>
        <refentrytitle>amqp-delete-queue</refentrytitle>
        <manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
        <refmiscinfo class="manual">RabbitMQ C Client</refmiscinfo>
    </refmeta>

    <refnamediv>
        <refname>amqp-delete-queue</refname>
        <refpurpose>Delete a queue from an AMQP server</refpurpose>
    </refnamediv>

    <refsynopsisdiv>
        <cmdsynopsis>
            <command>amqp-delete-queue</command>
            <arg choice="opt" rep="repeat">
                <replaceable>OPTION</replaceable>
            </arg>
            <arg choice="req">-q <replaceable>queue name</replaceable></arg>
        </cmdsynopsis>
    </refsynopsisdiv>

    <refsect1>
        <title>Description</title>
        <para>
            <command>amqp-delete-queue</command> deletes a queue from
            an AMQP server, and exits after printing to standard
            output the number of messages that were in the queue at
            the time of its deletion.
        </para>
    </refsect1>

    <refsect1>
        <title>Options</title>
        <variablelist>
            <varlistentry>
                <term><option>-q</option></term>
                <term><option>--queue</option>=<replaceable class="parameter">queue name</replaceable></term>
                <listitem>
                    <para>
                        The name of the queue to delete.
                    </para>
                </listitem>
            </varlistentry>
        </variablelist>
    </refsect1>

    <refsect1>
        <title>Exit Status</title>
        <para>
            If the queue was successfully deleted, the exit status is
            0. If an error occurs, the exit status is 1.
        </para>
    </refsect1>

    <refsect1>
        <title>Examples</title>
        <variablelist>
            <varlistentry>
                <term>Delete the
                queue <quote><systemitem class="resource">myqueue</systemitem></quote>
                at a moment when it has 123 messages waiting on
                it:</term>
                <listitem>
                    <screen><prompt>$ </prompt><userinput>amqp-delete-queue -q myqueue</userinput>
123</screen>
                </listitem>
            </varlistentry>
        </variablelist>
    </refsect1>

    <refsect1>
        <title>See also</title>
        <para>
            <citerefentry><refentrytitle>librabbitmq-tools</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>
            describes connection-related options common to all the
            RabbitMQ C Client tools.
        </para>
    </refsect1>
</refentry>
