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Delete old git branches

This will delete all branches except for main and feature/foo-bar.

git branch -D `git branch | grep -vE 'main|feature/foo-bar'`

This will delete all branches except for master and branches that begin with kany/SAVE, and kany/hack.

git branch -D `git branch | grep -vE 'master|kany/SAVE|kany/hack'`

Found this snippet from Stackoverflow: Can you delete multiple branches in one command with Git?

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