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Azure Storage Blob Container – Keep virtual directory when deleting blob via Azure CLI

I have Blob in that is placed inside Virtual Directory. For example :

Test/Simulation/Testing.txt

Is it possible to delete Testing.txt only via Azure CLI ?

I’ve tried to use az storage blob delete and az storage blob delete-batch commands but without success.

While trying to delete the blob with both commands from above the Virtual Directories Test/Simulation are also being deleted.

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    • It is not possible to keep empty directories/folder in Azure Blob Storage if the Hierarchical namespace is disabled.
    • To keep the empty directories in Azure Blob Storage, you need to use Data Lake Gen2 Storage Account

    reference from Sumarigo

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    While trying to delete the blob with both commands from above the Virtual Directories Test/Simulation are also being delete.

    In Azure Blob Storage, you can’t store empty folders because folders are represented as virtual directories. These directories are created by including a forward slash (/) in the blob name.

    If you need to keep empty directory, you need to enable hierarchical namespace to existing storage account.

    You can follow this MS-Document to upgrade the existing storage v2 to Azure data lake storage gen2 with some unsupported features.

    Portal:

    When the migration is complete, a message similar will appear.

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    Now, you can be able to keep the empty folder in the storage account and also you can use the same command to delete the files only.

    Portal:

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