Purge all rabbitmq queues on all vhosts

This sequence of commands will close all connections on a RabbitMQ Node

In troubleshooting memory issues recently I wanted a way to purge all queues, on all vhosts, without manually initiating each purge. It’s possible with rabbitmqlctl. This will not work for stream type queues and is not intended to provide a solution for that.

sudo rabbitmqctl list_vhosts | \
grep -vP 'Listing|name|Timeout' | \
awk '{print $1}' | \
xargs -L 1 -I {} sh -c "sudo rabbitmqctl list_queues --vhost {} | grep -vP 'Listing|name|Timeout' | awk '{print \$1}' | xargs -L 1 -I QQ sudo rabbitmqctl purge_queue --vhost {} QQ"