Cloning all repos of a user, organisation, etc

gh repo list <org/user/etc> --limit 1000 | while read -r repo _; do
  gh repo clone "$repo" "$repo"
done

The limit is added to stop accidentally cloning a large organisation like Microsoft.

A modified version that also pulls master or main at the same time:

gh repo list <org/user/etc> --limit 1000 | while read -r repo _; do
  gh repo clone "$repo" "$repo" -- -q 2>/dev/null || (
    cd "$repo"
    # Handle case where local checkout is on a non-main/master branch
    # - ignore checkout errors because some repos may have zero commits, 
    # so no main or master
    git checkout -q main 2>/dev/null || true
    git checkout -q master 2>/dev/null || true
    git pull -q
  )
done

ghorg can also be used, but requires a bit more setup.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19576742/how-to-clone-all-repos-at-once-from-github

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