diff --git a/cmd/delete.go b/cmd/delete.go
index b86f0d0..ed7db0c 100644
--- a/cmd/delete.go
+++ b/cmd/delete.go
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 You may obtain a copy of the License at
 
-    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+	http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 
 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ var deleteCmd = &cobra.Command{
 	Run: func(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) {
 
 		// Delete rule number
-		if cmd.Flags().Lookup("by-id").Changed {
+		if cmd.Flags().Lookup("id").Changed {
 			err := ipt.DeleteForwardById(ruleId)
 			if err != nil {
 				fmt.Println(err)
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ var deleteCmd = &cobra.Command{
 		}
 
 		// Loop over file content and delete rule one-by-one.
-		if cmd.Flags().Lookup("by-file").Changed {
+		if cmd.Flags().Lookup("file").Changed {
 			file, _ := cmd.Flags().GetString("by-file")
 			rulesFile, err := rules.NewRuleSetFromFile(file)
 			if err != nil {
diff --git a/pkg/iptables/forward.go b/pkg/iptables/forward.go
index 5d53803..e136e68 100644
--- a/pkg/iptables/forward.go
+++ b/pkg/iptables/forward.go
@@ -135,7 +135,6 @@ func ListForward(outputFormat string) (map[int]string, error) {
 	// check listed rules are tagged with custom tag
 	fwdRules := make(map[int]string)
 	for ruleId, rule := range ruleList {
-		fmt.Println(rule)
 		if strings.Contains(rule, label) {
 			fwdRules[ruleId] = rule
 		}
@@ -150,21 +149,10 @@ func DeleteForwardById(ruleId int) error {
 		return fmt.Errorf("failed: %v", err)
 	}
 
-	// retrieve rule using Id number
-	// (sudo iptables -t nat -L PREROUTING -n --line-numbers)
-	rule, err := ipt.ListById(fwdTable, fwdChain, ruleId)
-	if err != nil {
-		return fmt.Errorf("unable to retrieve rule with ID: %d", ruleId)
-	}
-
-	// cleaning rule (removing "-A PREROUTING", "-c 0 0", ...)
-	ruleSplit := strings.Split(rule, " ")
-	ruleSplit = append(ruleSplit[2:10], ruleSplit[13:]...)
-
 	// delete rule
-	err = ipt.Delete(fwdTable, fwdChain, ruleSplit...)
+	err = ipt.Delete(fwdTable, fwdChain, strconv.Itoa(ruleId))
 	if err != nil {
-		return fmt.Errorf("failed deleting rule #%d\n err: %v", ruleId, err)
+		return fmt.Errorf("failed deleting rule n. %d\nerr: %v", ruleId, err)
 	}
 	return nil
 }