Disable interactive screen

[shinebayar-g]

Describe the feature or problem you’d like to solve

Is it possible to disable interactive behavior of the cli? For example when I run the following command, it creates a new window / screen and I have to type q to exit this screen. It makes it difficult to use the cli in shell scripts.

gh api \
  -H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" \
  -H "X-GitHub-Api-Version: 2022-11-28" \
  -F per_page=100 \
  -F page=1 \
  -F name=artifact-name \
  -X GET \
  /repos/owner/repo/actions/artifacts

Proposed solution

If this interactive screen can be disabled, it would be easier to use it in shell scripts.

Additional context

I tried setting gh config set prompt disabled. Which seems do nothing?

[andyfeller]

@shinebayar-g : Thank you for opening up this issue! 🤗 In this scenario, I believe you are referring to how GitHub CLI handles output paging, which you can control via environment variables documented in GitHub CLI gh environment:

GH_PAGER, PAGER (in order of precedence): a terminal paging program to send standard output to, e.g. "less".

Does GH_PAGER=cat gh api ... work more as you would expect?

[shinebayar-g]

Ah that worked. Thank you. 🚀