Destroying multiple ZFS snapshots

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Note to self: Sometimes it is necessary to destroy not just a single but multiple ZFS snapshots. This can be done with some command line magic, but the zfs destroy subcommand has built in functionality too. Given a dataset pool1/dataset1 with 5 snapshots: snapshot1 snapshot2 snapshot3 snapshot4 snapshot5 will destroy snapshot1, snapshot2 and snapshot4 in … <a href="https://blog.dummzeuch.de/2024/11/11/destroying-multiple-zfs-snapshots/" class="more-link">Continue reading