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It is GitHub’s official command line tool. It brings pull requests, issues, and other GitHub concepts to the terminal next to where you are already working with git and your code.

So, Recently GitHub CLI made a new update to Run Your GitHub Workflow Files through Command Line.

Gitpod is an open-source Kubernetes application for ready-to-code developer environments that spins up fresh, automated dev environments for each task, in the cloud, in seconds. It enables you to describe your dev environment as code and start instant, remote and cloud-based developer environments directly from your browser or your Desktop IDE.

just add this prefix following to your github repository: https://gitpod.io/#

Example: https://gitpod.io/#https://github.com/GITHUB_USERNAME/REPOSITORY_NAME/

Run Following Commands:

curl -fsSL https://cli.github.com/packages/githubcli-archive-keyring.gpg | sudo dd of=/usr/share/keyrings/githubcli-archive-keyring.gpg
echo "deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture) signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/githubcli-archive-keyring.gpg] https://cli.github.com/packages stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/github-cli.list > /dev/null
sudo apt update
sudo apt install gh

sudo apt update
sudo apt install gh

Output:

• Create a empty file under .github/workflows/ named as github-action-demo.yml

• File Content:

  name: Demo
  
  on:
  # Triggers the workflow on push or pull request events but only for the main branch
  pull_request:
      branches: [main]
  
  # Allows you to run this workflow manually from the Actions tab
  workflow_dispatch:
  
  jobs:
  cli-gitpod:
      name: CLI and Gitpod Demo
      runs-on: ubuntu-latest
      steps:
      - name: Hello From Gitpod
          run: |
          echo "Hello! From Gitpod 🍊"

• Run:

  gh auth login

• Complete whole step and login.

• To View the list of your workflows:

  gh workflow list

you Will not see anything, because you first have to enbale that workflow.

• To Enable the workflow:

  gh workflow enable

• To Run the Workflow:

  gh workflow run demo

Here demo was my workflow name, you can replace it with your workflow's name.

On GitHub Dashboard:

• run history list & analysis:

  gh run list --workflow=github-action-demo.yml

github-action-demo.yml is the filename, replace it with your workflow's filename.

• Specific Result of any run ID:

  gh run view 1703727006

1703727006 is ID, replace it with your workflow run ID.