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How would I create a script that would take a list of file names in a git repository (I was planning on using a .txt file with one file name on each line, but I am open to other suggestions) as an input, and then remove those specified files from the repository?

I was thinking about using the 'cat' command and a pipe, so that in the terminal the commands would look something like this:

cd my-git-repo
cat fileNames.txt | myShellScript.sh
git push origin master

And then 'myShellScript.sh' would be:

#!/bin/bash
git rm $0
git add .
git commit -m "removed unused file"

Also I know there should be some type of 'read' command to read fileNames.txt line by line, but I am confused by what the syntax of it should be in this context.

I am fairly new to Unix/git so if this is not a feasible way to try and do this, or if there is a much better way of doing it, I would really appreciate being pointed in the right direction.

You can deploy your code from a git repo with rsync. A file e.g. exclude-rsync.txt could contain all files and directories (one per line) you don't want to deploy to the target (could be a new directory, too).

exlude-rsync.txt

.git
.gitignore
include/database.yml

rsync command

 rsync -avz --delete --exclude-from=exclude-rsync.txt . foo@192.168.0.123:/var/www/foobar/

CI / CD pipelines

With gitlab, travis ci (& jenkins) you can define ci/cd piplines usually in a yaml file. Whenever something is pushed to git(lab) or a branch is merged to master, the pipeline will start automatically. For gitlab you would add a file called .gitlab-ci.yml and it could look like this:

stages:
 - deploy
deploy_production:
 stage: deploy
 environment: production
 only:
 - master@my_repo
 before_script:
 - yum -y install rsync 
 script:
 - |
 rsync -avz --delete --exclude-from=exclude-rsync.txt . foo@192.168.0.123:/var/www/foobar/

But in a simpler case you would add a shell file e.g. deploy.sh having in mind that those pipelines exist and it might be good practice.

#!/bin/bash
rsync -avz --delete --exclude-from=exclude-rsync.txt . foo@192.168.0.123:/var/www/foobar/