Question

I’m trying to pass a parameter through a pipe in terminal for a git command, and, as per usual, I don’t know what I’m doing.

Currently: git rm --cached folder/path | rm -rf folder/path | git commit -m '...'

I would like to not have to repeat myself with the folder path in the second command if possible, but I’m not sure how to get the folder/path from the first command.

Is it even possible, or am I barking up the wrong tree?

Answer 1

You shouldn’t need to do pipe.

rm folder/file
git rm !$
git commit -m "your message"

Learning the bang (!) operator in bash is very worthwhile. Specifying a long path again isn’t the best.

For most of my workflow, I can get away with this:

rm path/to/unwanted/file
git add -A # stages ALL changes in the work tree
git commit -m "my message"

If I’m fixing up a previous commit which mistakenly added the file that I didn’t want, you can amend that commit by changing the last commit in the above code snippet to

git commit --amend -C HEAD

This will reuse the message from the current commit.

You might want to include the output of your git status and what you’re trying to do.