Comments on: 7 Tips to Make GitHub CLI (gh) Faster for Linux Automation https://www.tecmint.com/gh-cli-performance-tips/ Tecmint - Linux Howtos, Tutorials, Guides, News, Tips and Tricks. Wed, 04 Nov 2026 05:00:28 +0000 hourly 1 By: Ravi Saive https://www.tecmint.com/gh-cli-performance-tips/comment-page-1/#comment-2515846 Wed, 04 Nov 2026 05:00:28 +0000 https://www.tecmint.com/?p=63305#comment-2515846 In reply to Aviva Mar.

@Aviva,

Thanks for sharing what worked in your scripts! Checking for GH_TOKEN at the start is a good tip. If it’s missing, the cron job can exit with a clear error in the log, which makes it much easier to troubleshoot the next morning.

And if you’re checking several PRs every few minutes, batching those status checks into one GraphQL request can save a lot of repeated calls.

]]> By: Aviva Mar https://www.tecmint.com/gh-cli-performance-tips/comment-page-1/#comment-2509681 Mon, 26 Oct 2026 03:26:40 +0000 https://www.tecmint.com/?p=63305#comment-2509681 The reminder that gh still behaves like an interactive tool even inside cron is useful. GH_TOKEN plus pinning GH_REPO and preferring –json cut a surprising amount of waste in scripts I’ve had to clean up. GraphQL batching is the tip I’d put at the top for anyone polling PR status every few minutes. One more habit that helped here: fail closed when the token is missing instead of letting gh fall back to a prompt that hangs the job overnight.

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