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  1. Create token with repo and delete repo scope, https://github.com/settings/tokens
  2. Install github command line tools. https://cli.github.com/manual/
  3. List repos gh repo list --fork --limit 500 > repos.txt
  4. echo "USER=kliu\nTOKEN=123\n" > clean.sh
  5. cat repos.txt| awk '{printf "curl -XDELETE -u ${USER}:${TOKEN} https://api.github.com/repos/"$1"\n"}' >> clean.sh
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