Show special Measurements with a search string “pl line”
SHOW MEASUREMENTS WITH MEASUREMENT =~ /.*pl line.*/
if you have a lot of Measurements to delete you can do that in this way over SSH:
influx --execute 'show measurements' --database=db | grep "pl line" | xargs -I{} influx --database=db --execute 'drop measurement "{}"'
that will remove all Lines with results by grep, a dryrun can be done by this shorter line:
influx --execute 'show measurements' --database=db | grep "pl line"
just to see the hits
In some cases you can hit some special characters in current case i did hit in the Measurename double backslashes:
DROP MEASUREMENT "Measurement_name\\splitted by double backslashes" that will fail!
Here you will need to negotiate it by a backslash for each control character like backslash so that finally i get this also first with double quotas ”
DROP MEASUREMENT "Measurement_name\\\\splitted by double backslashes"