Clone every GitHub Gists into separate folders

clone-all-gists.sh

#!/bin/bash

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# Clone every GitHub Gist
# Requirement: The GitHub CLI
#              sudo apt install gh
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mkdir gists
cd gists

# function that creates a slug from a text, for example slugify "hello world" --> hello-world
slugify(){ echo "$1" | iconv -t ascii//TRANSLIT | sed -r s/[^a-zA-Z0-9]+/-/g | sed -r s/^-+\|-+$//g | tr A-Z a-z; }

# initializes a counter and lists every gist in reverse order, then clones all of them in a directory named COUNTER-gist-description
cnt=0; gh gist list --limit 1000 | cut -f1,2 | tac | while read id name; do ((cnt++)); gh gist clone $id $cnt-`slugify "$name"`; done

# the result:
# 1-my-first-gist/
# 2-my-second-gist/
# 3-...