How to remove multiple deleted files in Git repository

Question

git add -u 

updates all your changes

Be very cautious about git rm .; it might remove more than you want. Of course, you can recover, but it is simpler not to have to do so.

Simplest would be:

git rm modules/welcome/language/english/kaimonokago_lang.php \
       modules/welcome/language/french/kaimonokago_lang.php \
       modules/welcome/language/german/kaimonokago_lang.php \
       modules/welcome/language/norwegian/kaimonokago_lang.php

You can't use shell wildcards because the files don't exist, but you could use (in Bash at least):

git rm modules/welcome/language/{english,french,german,norwegian}/kaimonokago_lang.php

Or consider:

git status | sed -n '/^# *deleted:/s///p' | xargs git rm

This takes the output of git status, doesn't print anything by default (sed -n), but on lines that start # deleted:, it gets rid of the # and the deleted: and prints what is left; xargs gathers up the arguments and provides them to a git rm command. This works for any number of files regardless of similarity (or dissimilarity) in the names.

Another version to ByScripts answer is

git rm $(git ls-files --deleted)

This will ONLY remove the deleted files from the git.

It could be also be used for adding ONLY modified files also.

git add $(git ls-files --modified)

These commands also works on gitbash for windows.

Update all changes you made:

git add -u

The deleted files should change from unstaged (usually red color) to staged (green). Then commit to remove the deleted files:

git commit -m "note"

The best solution if you don't care about staging modified files is to use git add -u as said by mshameers and/or pb2q.

If you just want to remove deleted files, but not stage any modified ones, I think you should use the ls-files argument with the --deleted option (no need to use regex or other complex args/options) :

git ls-files --deleted | xargs git rm

Yes, git rm <filename> will stage the deleted state of a file, where <filename> could be a glob pattern:

$ git rm modules/welcome/language/*/kaimonokago_lang.php
rm modules/welcome/language/english/kaimonokago_lang.php
rm modules/welcome/language/french/kaimonokago_lang.php
rm modules/welcome/language/german/kaimonokago_lang.php
rm modules/welcome/language/norwegian/kaimonokago_lang.php

$ git status
# On branch master
# Changes to be committed:
#   (use "git reset HEAD <file>..." to unstage)
#
#       deleted:    modules/welcome/language/english/kaimonokago_lang.php
#       ...

Then, you can commit.

git commit -a will do this in one go, if you want.

You can also use git add -u to stage all the changes, including all the deleted files, then commit.

When I have a lot of files I've deleted that are unstaged for commit, you can git rm them all in one show with:

for i in `git status | grep deleted | awk '{print $3}'`; do git rm $i; done

As question answerer mentioned, be careful with git rm.