Uploading-and-downloading-data.md

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 PEP provides built-in processing facilities for some data formats. Special considerations may apply when uploading data to affected columns. See the [section on that topic](#data-format-processing) for details.
 
+## Deleting data
+It is also possible to delete data using `pepcli`. Note that data is never truly deleted, since PEP keeps a version history, and this history is also kept for a file that is deleted. But the data will no longer be visible in new downloads from PEP.
+
+The `pepcli delete` command works very similar to the `pepcli store` command. The only difference is that it does not get any input data. We can for example delete data using:
+
+```
+/app/pepcli delete -p POM162733743006 -c Holter.Visit1
+```
+
+Or by using a short pseudonym:
+```
+/app/pepcli delete -sp POM1EC7713461 -c Holter.Visit1
+```
+
 # Downloading data
 
 Users commonly invoke [the `pepcli pull` command](Using-pepcli#pull) to download data from PEP. In its most basic form, the command is invoked to download data for a specific participant (identifier) and column (name), e.g.: