How to run gh auth login --with-token on Windows with PowerShell?
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To run gh auth login --with-token on Windows with PowerShell in a GitHub Actions workflow, you can use the following example: |
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What a horrible nasty format. I cant help but wonder why it cant operate like a normal prompt and let me pas the token. Also an error of "accepts 0 arg(s), received 1" is just cryptic. |
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I didn't get this to work at first. First I had to install powershell 7.x.x. I was running only powershell 1.0 on the server where my runner was hosted. If |
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The PowerShell shape does work, but the syntax is PowerShell-specific. I just verified that piping a value into: gh auth login --with-tokenis accepted as standard input by So the practical forms are: If the token is already in an environment variable: $env:GH_TOKEN | gh auth login --with-tokenIf it is in a file: Get-Content .\mytoken.txt | gh auth login --with-tokenThe main thing to avoid is mixing cmd redirection syntax into PowerShell. So my short answer would be:
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I can't get it to work in any way:
echo ${{ secrets.GH_TOKEN }} | gh auth login --with-tokenresults inA positional parameter cannot be found that accepts argument 'auth'.Or `Cannot run a document in the middle of a pipeline: C:\hostedtoolcache\windows\gh-cli\2.32.0\x64\bin\gh.cmd /c "gh auth login --with-token < $(echo ***)"results inThe system cannot find the file specified.How do I get it to work with PowerShell?
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