Bash script to delete all documents from a Solr core.

.bash_profile

# Put this at the end of your .bash_profile.
#
# Usage: clearsolr corename

clearsolr() {
  curl http://localhost:8983/solr/$1/update -H "Content-type: text/xml" --data-binary '<delete><query>*:*</query></delete>'
  curl http://localhost:8983/solr/$1/update -H "Content-type: text/xml" --data-binary '<commit />'
  curl http://localhost:8983/solr/$1/update -H "Content-type: text/xml" --data-binary '<optimize />'
  curl http://localhost:8983/solr/$1/update -H "Content-type: text/xml" --data-binary '<commit />'
}