Clears the branches in current working directory that are not master, develop, or current checkout'd out branch

clearGitBranches

#!/bin/bash
  
#go to the current working directory
pwd |
while CWD= read -r line; do
  cd "$line"
done

#designate local branches to skip
SKIPPEDBRANCHES="master develop"
#current branch regex, starts with *
CURRENTREGEX="^\*."

#grep local branches list to separate by space
git branch |
while IFS= read -r line; do
  CURRENTBRANCH="${line// /}"
  SKIPBRANCH="false"
  for skippedbranch in $SKIPPEDBRANCHES ; do
    #validate current branch name against skipped and not the current branch
    if [[ $CURRENTBRANCH == $skippedbranch ]] || [[ $CURRENTBRANCH =~ $CURRENTREGEX ]]; then
      SKIPBRANCH="true"
    fi
  done
  #delete branch if passed checks
  if [[ "$SKIPBRANCH" == "false" ]]; then
    git branch -D "$CURRENTBRANCH"
  fi
done