Git pre-commit hook to find text in files

Question

I\'m writing a git pre-commit hook to check if any of the staged files are containing disallowed text and abort if that\'s the case.

Not an expert at this. So far I\

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OP ended up with:

disallowed="word1 word2"

git diff --cached --name-status | while read x file; do
        if [ "$x" == 'D' ]; then continue; fi
        for word in $disallowed
        do
            if egrep $word $file ; then
                echo "ERROR: Disallowed expression \"${word}\" in file: ${file}"
                exit 1
            fi
        done
done || exit $?