The clear command is an administrative command that deletes ALL images and all image metadata. Passing the --verbose command will print brief information about all the images that were deleted, as shown below:

$> glance --verbose clear --host=65.114.169.29
Deleting image 1 "Some web image" ... done
Deleting image 2 "Some other web image" ... done
Completed in 0.0328 sec.


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