permtest.yml

# This is a basic workflow that is manually triggered

name: Manual workflow test

# Controls when the action will run. Workflow runs when manually triggered using the UI
# or API.
on:
  workflow_dispatch:


permissions:
  actions: write

jobs:

  greet:
    # The type of runner that the job will run on
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    # Steps represent a sequence of tasks that will be executed as part of the job
    steps:
    
    # Checkout the repository to the GitHub Actions runner 
    - name: Checkout
      uses: actions/checkout@v2
    
    - name: check perms
      run: |
        echo ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }} |gh auth login --with-token
        gh  api -i '${{env.GITHUB_REPOSITORY}}'

    - name: do it
      run: |
        # 3600 = 1hr
        #  86400 = 1 day
        # 864000 = 10 days
        export OlderThan=86400

        
        # Using a two-part query so that we can leverage env variables
        query1='.workflow_runs[]| select( .status == "waiting") | {id, created_at, run_number,cancel_url}'
        query2='select( .created_at|fromdate < now - (env.OlderThan| tonumber)) | [ .cancel_url] |@tsv'
        items=$(gh api "repos/{owner}/{repo}/actions/runs"  --jq "$query1" |jq -rc "$query2")

        echo $items

        i=0
        for item in $items; do
            echo "$i: Cancelling run $item"
            #gh run cancel $item
            set +e # 
            gh api -X POST $item

            let "i++"
        done