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    +1: that's fun and instructive, in that it's wasn't at all obvious to me that you can put anything more complex than the name of a program in the GIT_EDITOR environment variable. Commented Mar 4, 2011 at 21:04
  • You could simplify this using gawk. git -c core.editor="gawk -i inplace '{if(NR>1 && \$1==\"pick\"){\$1=\"squash\"} print \$0}'" rebase -i --autosquash HEAD~5. Commented Aug 30, 2020 at 8:56
  • I prefer this command with GIT_SEQUENCE_EDITOR, for I need autostash
    – martian
    Commented Dec 25, 2021 at 23:02