Bash script to split multi-cookbook repo into individual git repos, retaining history, and uploads to github

reposplit.sh

#!/bin/bash

for cookbook_dir in `ls community-cookbooks`; do
    if [ $cookbook_dir != 'readme.md' ]; then
        REPO=chef-$cookbook_dir
        git clone --no-hardlinks ./community-cookbooks/ $REPO
        SAVEDIR=`pwd`
        cd $REPO
        git filter-branch --subdirectory-filter $cookbook_dir HEAD -- --all --prune-empty
        git reset --hard
        rm -rf .git/refs/original/
        git reflog expire --expire=now --all
        git gc --aggressive --prune=now
        git remote rm origin
        DESCRIPTION=`grep -w description metadata.rb | sed -e 's/^description[ \t]*//g'`
        HOMEPAGE='http://heavywater.ca'
        hub create heavywater/$REPO -d "$DESCRIPTION" -h $HOMEPAGE
        git push origin master
        cd $SAVEDIR
    fi
done