Watch latest run live

Stream the newest run's progress live and exit with its status code

gh run watch $(gh run list -w deploy.yml -L1 --json databaseId -q '.[0].databaseId')
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More github-actions commands

  • Show only failed logs
    gh run view <id> --log-failed | less -R

    Print logs of failed steps only, skipping noise from passing jobs

  • Run a job locally with act
    act -j build --secret-file .secrets -P ubuntu-latest=catthehacker/ubuntu:act-22.04

    Run an Actions job in Docker locally before pushing; note: pin a real runner image

  • Rerun only failed jobs
    gh run rerun <id> --failed

    Retry just the failed jobs of a run, reusing prior successful results

  • List and prune caches
    gh cache list --sort size_in_bytes --order desc; gh cache delete <id>

    Find the biggest Actions caches and delete stale ones to free quota

  • OIDC keyless cloud auth
    permissions: id-token: write contents: read

    Job-level perms enabling OIDC token to assume a cloud role without static keys

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