Delete all runs of a specific GitHub Workflow with one command

delete-workflow-runs.sh

export GH_PAGER=cat # this is important to keep gh from using less as a pager
export GH_REPO="<org-name>/<repo-name>" # for instance, shipengine/shipengine-elements
export GH_WORKFLOW_FILENAME="<workflow-filename>" # for instance, "lint-and-test.yml"

gh api repos/$GH_REPO/actions/workflows/$GH_WORKFLOW_FILENAME/runs --paginate --jq '.workflow_runs[] | .id' | \
  xargs -n 1 -I % gh api repos/$GH_REPO/actions/runs/% -X DELETE