psql -d postgres -c "DROP DATABASE appdb WITH (FORCE);"
Drop a database and its connections
Drops the database and every object and row in it, terminating any remaining connections first thanks to WITH (FORCE), new in PostgreSQL 13. There is no undo, so back up with pg_dump before running it on anything real.
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