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14<b><i>db</i> <b>del</b></b>
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22<b><pre>db del
23	[-glob]
24	[-txn txnid]
25	key
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27<b>Description(db del)</b>
28<p>The <i>db</i> <b>del</b> command removes key/data pairs from the database.</p>
29<p>In the presence of duplicate key values, all records associated with the
30designated key will be discarded.</p>
31<p>The options are as follows:</p>
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33<b>-glob</b><ul compact><li>The specified key is a wildcard pattern, and all keys matching that
34pattern are discarded from the database.  The pattern is a simple
35wildcard, any characters after the wildcard character are ignored.
36This option only works on databases using the Btree access method.</ul>
37<b>-txn txnid</b><ul compact><li>If the operation is part of an application-specified transaction, the
38<b>txnid</b> parameter is a transaction handle returned from
39<i>env</i> <b>txn</b>.  If no transaction handle is specified, but the
40operation occurs in a transactional
41database,
42the operation will be implicitly transaction protected.</ul>
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44<p>The <i>db</i> <b>del</b> command returns 0 on success, and in the case of error, a Tcl error
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