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Shell Redirect 'git clean' output

I have a large code repo I work with that, once compiled, litters the git source tree with about 3000 extra files (.os, .sos, etc), as well as a few hundred other file changes (autogenerated files, permissions, etc). So I've gotten used to doing a git clean -f and git reset --hard HEAD before every pull, to avoid the mountains of conflicts I would get.

I'm trying to automate this into a pretty little script, but I can't find any way to redirect the output of git clean. Specifically, I'm doing something like this:

(in fish-shell)

set -l linecount ( git clean -n | wc -l )
git clean -f | pv -l -s $linecount

I've tried setting pv to be the $PAGER and enabling --paginate, no luck. I've tried various combinations of the pipe like 2>&1 | to no avail.

Anyone know how to make this work?

Solution

  • Doh.. Seems this was user error...

    pv echoes input to output. Duh.. Correct syntax should have been:

    git clean -f | pv -l -s $linecount > /dev/null

    And now it works!