>> set your variables: TOKEN="" REGION="lon" DDI="" < this is the account number >> Generate a list of backup agents curl -sH "X-Auth-Token: $TOKEN" -H "Content-type: application/json" -X GET https://$REGION.backup.api.rackspacecloud.com/v1.0/$DDI/user/agents | python -m json.tool | egrep "MachineName|MachineAgentId" | awk -F":" '{print $2}' | sed 's/ //g' | sed '{N;s/\n//}' > list.txt >> Manually remove WANTED backup agents (leave only the ones you want to remove): vim list.txt >> Generate remove list awk -F, '{print $1}' list.txt > remove.txt >> generate the exec file to review for AGENTID in `cat remove.txt`; do echo curl -sH \"X-Auth-Token: $TOKEN\" -H \"Content-type: application/json\" -X POST https://$REGION.backup.api.rackspacecloud.com/v1.0/$DDI/agent/delete -d \'{\"MachineAgentId\": $AGENTID}\' ; done >> exec_me >> exec the API calls /bin/bash exec_me