title: How to delete multiple topics in Apache Kafka
body: <p>Assuming that I have a number of topics with the same prefix, e.g:</p>
  <pre><code>giorgos-topic1
  giorgos-topic2
  giorgos-topic3
  ...
  </code></pre>
  <p>The command used for deleting a single topic (say <code>giorgos-topic1</code>) is the following:</p>
  <pre><code>./bin/kafka-topics.sh --zookeeper localhost:2181 --delete --topic giorgos-topic1
  </code></pre>
  <p>Is it possible to delete multiple topics using a single command and possibly a regular expression/wildcard (e.g. <code>giorgos-*</code>) instead of typing all the topic names that need to be deleted one by one?</p>