Helper script to delete git tags locally and remote

Might be useful to others, delete a bunch of git tags - remote and locally

	### matches all git tags that start with numeric value, update regex as needed
	# commands to remove local tags
	git tag -l | grep "^\d" | sed 's/^/tag -d /' > _remove_tags
	# commands to remove remote tags
	git tag -l | grep "^\d" | sed 's/^/push origin :refs\/tags\//' > _remove_tags_remote
	# review contents of file
	cat _remove_tags | while read line; do echo $line; done
	# execute each line in file
	cat _remove_tags | while read line; do git $line; done
	# review contents of file
	cat _remove_tags_remote | while read line; do echo $line; done
	# execute each line in file
	cat _remove_tags_remote | while read line; do git $line; done

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Resources

• http://nathanhoad.net/how-to-delete-a-remote-git-tag 
• http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/programming-9/bash-read-every-line-in-the-files-and-use-the-line-as-parameters-as-another-program-246291/
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1605232/use-bash-to-read-a-file-and-then-execute-a-command-from-the-words-extracted