How to delete a conflicting document in CouchDB 1.6.1

Retrieve the list of conflicting revisions

User the following curl to retrieve the list of conflicting revisions

curl -u userName:password http://<IP>:5984/<DB_NAME>/<DOC_NAME>\?conflicts\=true

The output would be something like following

{"_id":"my_doc","_rev":"10007-41ad08f6c152a9da8458bc5b1a7d86a7", "documentObject":{"index":{...........}),"_conflicts":["10003-d109ea0ea25918a83bbde4de6753f173","10001-1b618568334a43b2f61fc2f710efaac8","9992-
..........
6433482dd8f753c41d67949c1d11b296","563-5cc0de9756e78a004b68c054260c60a8","277-0e5c2632c940a6973b21ff0ef7c32f6a"]}

Then copy the conflicting revisions to an array to and enter it to the terminal

array="10003-d109ea0ea25918a83bbde4de6753f173","10001-1b618568334a43b2f61fc2f710efaac8","9992-
..........
6433482dd8f753c41d67949c1d11b296","563-5cc0de9756e78a004b68c054260c60a8","277-0e5c2632c940a6973b21ff0ef7c32f6a"

Delete the corresponding revisions

Write the script to execute the delete call

for i in $(echo $array | sed "s/,/ /g")
do
    curl -u userName:password -X DELETE http://<IP>:<DB_NAME>/<DOC_NAME>\?rev\=$i
done

You will see output like follows

{"ok":true,"id":"settings","rev":"10004-73a7da6d7551759cbecbd4a14bfbe213"}
{"ok":true,"id":"settings","rev":"10002-df955439c468e65aab946be7db63be80"}
{"ok":true,"id":"settings","rev":"9993-8966c9010602c8a053cb734792ff0f00"}
{"ok":true,"id":"settings","rev":"9992-5c8032bc4d2798fbade3324335f1f393"}

{"ok":true,"id":"settings","rev":"9973-d5b8a7a15fbe3197e09e71b42c82d14f"}
.....