Posts tagged: github

gh auth switch

2025-12-07T10:55:55Z

When using two GitHub accounts the gh cli gives very easy gh auth switch workflow from the cli.

from the docs

gh auth switch –help Switch the active account for a GitHub host.

This command changes the authentication configuration that will be used when running commands targeting the specified GitHub host.

If the specified host has two accounts, the active account will be switched automatically. If there are more than two accounts, disambiguation will be required either through the --user flag or an interactive prompt.

# list accounts
gh auth status
# switch accounds (interactive if more than 2, i've never seen this personally)
gh auth switch

💭 jpillora/installer: One-liner for installing binaries from Git...

2023-09-23T00:59:09Z

GitHub - jpillora/installer: One-liner for installing binaries from Github releases

One-liner for installing binaries from Github releases - jpillora/installer

GitHub · github.com

This is a sick looking bash script generator for installing binaries off of github releases. it reccomends curl into bash, but you could curl into install.sh and toss that in your dotfiles repo or wherever.

Install installer with installer

curl -s https://i.jpillora.com/installer | bash

Note

This post is a thought. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts

dash e your github docker actions

2022-12-07T13:09:37Z

Give github actions the -e flag in the shebang #! so they fail on any one command failure. Otherwise each line will set the exit status, but only the last one will be passed to ci.

#!/bin/bash -e

What is -e #

The -e flag to the bash command allows your script to exit immediately if any command within the script returns a non-zero exit status. This can be useful for ensuring that your script exits with an error if any of the commands it runs fail, which can help you identify and debug issues in your script. For example, if you have a script that runs several commands and one of those commands fails, the script will continue running without the -e flag, but will exit immediately if the -e flag is present. This can make it easier to troubleshoot your script and ensure that it runs correctly.

Solution for Windows #

In windows the solution is not quite as simple. You can define a function in a Windows batch script that wraps an if statement to check the exit status of a command and handle any errors that may have occurred. Here is an example of how you might define a function called “check_error” that does this:

:check_error
if errorlevel 1 (
  echo An error occurred!
  exit /b 1
)

To use this function in your script, you would simply call it after running a command, like this:

some_command
call :check_error

This would run the “some_command” and then call the “check_error” function to check the exit status and handle any errors that may have occurred. This approach allows you to reuse the error-checking logic in your script, which can make it easier to write and maintain.