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List of all git local branches starting with a line

I want to list all local branches (eventually delete, but for the sake of safety ...) that ONLY start with abc. The point is that such works. But if a branch does not start with "abc", it will list ALL branches. what i dont want to do (deleting all my local branches)

git for-each-ref --format="%(refname:short)" refs/heads/abc\* | xargs git branch --list
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You just need to tell xargs

not to execute your command if it has no input.

You do it with an argument -r

or --no-run-if-empty

.



git for-each-ref --format="%(refname:short)" refs/heads/abc\* | xargs --no-run-if-empty git branch --list
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