Delete multiple remote branches in git
bash, git
Solution
Use the following command to remove all branches with `PREFIX` prefix on remote server.
git branch -r | awk -F/ '/\/PREFIX/{print $2}' | xargs -I {} git push origin :{}
You may want to do a dry-run first to see if it is the branches that you want to remove:
git branch -r | awk -F/ '/\/PREFIX/{print $2}'
Problem
I have a team member who inadvertently pushed over 150 of his local branches to our central repo. Thankfully, they all have the same prefix. Using that prefix, is there a git command or cool little shell script I can use that will delete all of those at once?