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    ### Use this trick to bulk delete your old repos or old forks
    (Inspired by https://medium.com/@icanhazedit/clean-up-unused-github-rpositories-c2549294ee45#.3hwv4nxv5)

    1. Open in a new tab all to-be-deleted github repositores (Use the mouse’s middle click or Ctrl + Click) https://github.com/wildeyes?tab=repositories
    1. Open in a new tab all to-be-deleted github repositores (Use the mouse’s middle click or Ctrl + Click) https://github.com/username?tab=repositories

    2. Use one tab https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/onetab/chphlpgkkbolifaimnlloiipkdnihall to shorten them to a list.

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    5. Register a new personal access token with a 'delete_repo perm' https://github.com/settings/tokens/new

    6. Copy the access_token and run the following line replacing xxx with your access token.

    **Linux and OS X :**
    ```
    while read r;do curl -XDELETE -H 'Authorization: token xxx' "https://api.github.com/repos/$r ";done < repos
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    ### Use this trick to bulk delete your old repos or old forks
    (Inspired by https://medium.com/@icanhazedit/clean-up-unused-github-rpositories-c2549294ee45#.3hwv4nxv5)

    1. Open in a new tab all to-be-deleted github repositores (Use the mouse’s middle click or Ctrl + Click) https://github.com/wildeyes?tab=repositories

    2. Use one tab https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/onetab/chphlpgkkbolifaimnlloiipkdnihall to shorten them to a list.

    3. Save that list to some path

    4. The list should be in the form of “ur_username\repo_name” per line. Use regex search (Sublime text could help). Search for ' \|.*' and replace by empty.

    5. Register a new personal access token with a 'delete_repo perm' https://github.com/settings/tokens/new

    6. Copy the access_token and run the following line replacing xxx with your access token.
    **Linux and OS X :**
    ```
    while read r;do curl -XDELETE -H 'Authorization: token xxx' "https://api.github.com/repos/$r ";done < repos
    ```
    **Windows:**
    ```
    get-content D:\repolist.txt | ForEach-Object { Invoke-WebRequest -Uri https://api.github.com/repos/$_ -Method “DELETE” -Headers @{"Authorization"="token xxx"} }
    ```

    ### Caution
    I have only tested this script on Linux.

    Have fun :)