How to 'git rm' all deleted files shown by 'git status'

UPDATE: Thanks to user comments, it turns out the easiest way to do this is with this command:

git add -u

Otherwise, feel free to read the example below for an alternative approach...

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So today I was updating the filefield module in Drupal 6 with Drush (drush up webform), this worked great, as usual. However, my Drupal site is under source control with GIT. So after updating the module and running 'git status' I was presented with a whole bunch of changes. Something like this:

git status

# Changed but not updated:
#   (use "git add/rm <file>..." to update what will be committed)
#   (use "git checkout -- <file>..." to discard changes in working directory)
#
# modified:   filefield/README.txt
# modified:   filefield/UPGRADE.txt
# ... many more files listed ...
# deleted:    filefield/filefield_meta/translations/de.po
# ... many more files listed ...
# deleted:    filefield/translations/uk-ua.po
# deleted:    filefield/translations/uk.po

There were about 30 files that were deleted, so we definitely don't want to have to execute 'git rm' 30 times, once for each deleted file. Let's use some terminal magic to take out the garbage in one foul swoop, no pun intended. First, let's get our list of files to verify we are about to 'git rm' the correct files:

git status | grep deleted | awk '{print $2}'

The trick with 'awk' is that the $3 says "print the third column in the line of text". It determines columns via its default column separator, which is whitespace. For example:

# deleted:    filefield/translations/uk.po

So in this example, the first column is '#', the second column is 'deleted:' and the third column will be the file name 'filefield/translations/uk.po'.

Now that we have our complete list of deleted files, we can 'git rm' them:

git rm `git status | grep deleted | awk '{print $2}'`

The command essentially says, "Use grep to find all the lines ouput by 'git status' that have the word 'deleted' in it, then grab the 3rd column on the line and run 'git rm' on it."

That will do it!