This guide helps in creating a list of existing GitHub repositories in a GitHub organization in a text tile. Exporting to a txt file helps in manipulating the data as needed for later steps. The GH CLI official documentation has information to install and authorize GH CLI from your local.

Below are the steps for this guide:

1. List org repositories
2. JSON values
3. JQ to filter JSON
4. Output data into txt file
5. Conclusion

gh repo list ramyaparimi -L 13 will give an output of all repositories with description, repo visibility and last activity in the terminal.

-L flag will give aximum number of repositories to list followed by the total number of repos in the org. Example -L 13 gives the total number of 13 repos in my org.

Adding the field name to JSON value will give the list of repos and their names.

The list of repos in json format:

Adding a jq value of ".[].name" will generate list of repo names in the form of a list. It is important to have " around the jq command to output the repo names without corrently. Not adding double quotes around the .[].name command threw me an error.

Here is the list of repositories with owner name:

I wanted this list exported into a .txt for easy data access and manipulation in later steps. I used > output redirection to save the output in a .txt file.

Using >> will input the data into an already existing txt file:

It is easy to manipulate data in text file. A GitHub Action can be used to change the visibility of the repositories to the desired state. However, necessary persmissions should be there to make such changes in a GitHub organization.