Bulk git backup and removal using Github CLI

README.md

• Install Homebrew: https://brew.sh/
• Install Github CLI: https://cli.github.com/

Linux

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"
brew install gh

backup.sh

# Back up all repositories starting with a certain set of characters.
#
# Replace `<GithubAccountName>/...` with the start of the repo(s) you want to remove.  e.g. Jerdak/foo_
gh repo list --json nameWithOwner --jq '.[] | select(.nameWithOwner | startswith("<GithubAccountName>/...")) | .nameWithOwner' |
while read -r repo; do
    owner=$(echo "$repo" | cut -d '/' -f 1)
    repo_name=$(echo "$repo" | cut -d '/' -f 2)
    gh repo clone "$owner/$repo_name"
    cd "$repo_name"
    tar czf "../${repo_name}.tar.gz" .
    cd ..
    rm -rf "$repo_name"
done

delete.sh

# Delete all repositories starting with a certain set of characters
#
# Replace `<GithubAccountName>/...` with the start of the repo(s) you want to remove.  e.g. Jerdak/foo_
gh repo list --json nameWithOwner --jq '.[] | select(.nameWithOwner | startswith("Jerdak/difz")) | .nameWithOwner' |
while read -r repo; do
    owner=$(echo "$repo" | cut -d '/' -f 1)
    repo_name=$(echo "$repo" | cut -d '/' -f 2)
    echo "Deleting: $owner/$repo_name"
    # UNCOMMENT ME TO ACTUALLY DELETE (will require `gh auth refresh -s delete_repo` to have been run at least once)
    #gh repo delete "$owner/$repo_name" --yes
done