GRU: Git Remove Untracked Files

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#!/bin/bash
# gru
# Git Remove Untracked (files)
# without this script, you have to manually delete files and directories in your git directory if
# you want to delete them and they are not tracked by git.
# this works as an alias or an executable file

# Explanation:
# git status -s              (display the git status of each file, one line at a time, in short format)
# grep '^??'                 (untracked files will begin with ??)
# cut -d\  -f2-              (get the path to the file, explained here: http://stackoverflow.com/a/9004039/2083544)
# xargs -I \{\} rm -rf "{}"  (pipe the filepath or directory to the remove command)

git status -s | grep '^??' | cut -d\  -f2- | xargs -I \{\} rm -rf "{}"