Simple bash script to clean MULTIPLE unwanted files out of a git repo

gitclean.sh

#!/bin/bash
#
# Usage: ./gitclean.sh <branch> <path-to-match>
# Requires clean working tree (i.e. delete files in <path> and commit)
#
# Thom Seddon <[email protected]>

git ls-tree --name-only -r $1 $2 | while read FILE; do
    git filter-branch --index-filter "git rm --cached ${FILE}" HEAD
done