For system, network and cloud administrators

How to view an Azure resource group’s location using Azure CLI

In order to view a particular Azure resource group’s location, type in your shell:

az group show --resource-group yourresourcegroup --query location

How to list all Azure resource groups using Azure CLI

In order to view all available resource groups in Azure, type:

az group list --output tsv


How to delete an Azure resource group using Azure CLI

One of the most common tasks in Azure is knowing how to delete a particular resource group. In order to do that, type:

az group delete --name yourresourcegroup --no-wait --yes


How to delete all Azure resource groups that start with a pattern using Azure CLI and Azure Bash shell

In order to delete all resource groups that start with project01, for example, you’ll first need to make sure you’re in a Bash shell and not PowerShell. Then, type:

az group list --query "[?starts_with(name,'project01')].[name]" --output tsv | xargs -L1 bash -c 'az group delete --name $0 --no-wait --yes' 


How to list all Azure managed disks that start with a pattern using Azure CLI

In order to view all managed disks that start with the disk name, type:

az disk list --query "[?starts_with(name,'disk')].name" --output tsv