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Created July 17, 2017 08:47
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Originally oneliner to clean up snapshots in reverse order on a VirtualBox machine.
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remove_vbox_snapshots.sh
VM_NAME="MyVM"
# Use tac to reverse list given by --machinereadble outut of VBoxManage.
# Get ID from the SnapshotUUID-1-1-1-1-1-1="76c627e3-1c0a-4d0c-b680-b4f1c6175dac" output
for snap in $(VBoxManage snapshot "$VM_NAME" list --machinereadable| grep '^SnapshotUUID' | tac - | sed 's/SnapshotUUID\(-[0-9-]\+\)\?="\([0-9a-f-]\+\)"/\2/g') ; do
echo "Deleting Snap $snap" ; VBoxManage snapshot "$VM_NAME" delete "$snap"
done
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