Bulk delete of GitHub repositories

bulkdelete.sh

#!/bin/sh
set -x

# For it to work, you need to install
# -- jq, https://stedolan.github.io/jq/
# -- http, https://httpie.org/


if [ "$#" -ne 1 ]; then
  echo "Usage: $0 AUTORIZATION_TOKEN" >&2
  exit 1
fi

#Token needs to have repo deletion permissions.
TOKEN=$1

URL=https://api.github.com/orgs
ORG=tecnico-softeng

REG_EXPR="es17.*-project"

echo "Fetching repos (${REG_EXPR})"

repos=`http $URL/$ORG/repos "Authorization:token ${TOKEN}" | jq '.[].full_name' | egrep ${REG_EXPR}`

echo "Deleteing repos..."
for r in $repos
do
  name=`echo $r | tr -d '"'`
  `http DELETE https://api.github.com/repos/$name "Authorization:token $TOKEN"`
done