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Delete local branches that do not exist remotely.

$ git fetch --all --prune; git branch --verbose | grep ": gone]" | awk '{ print $1 }' | xargs --no-tags 1 git branch --delete --force
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thomasJoei commented Nov 3, 2021 •
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grep "[gone]" will match everything that as 'g','o','n','e' characters (see https://www.gnu.org/software/grep/manual/html_node/Character-Classes-and-Bracket-Expressions.html)
So master and other branches we probably don't want to delete will be included.

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