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Install GitHub cli on WSL Ubuntu

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Just use commands from documentation.

type -p curl >/dev/null || (sudo apt update && sudo apt install curl -y)
curl -fsSL https://cli.github.com/packages/githubcli-archive-keyring.gpg | sudo dd of=/usr/share/keyrings/githubcli-archive-keyring.gpg \
&& sudo chmod go+r /usr/share/keyrings/githubcli-archive-keyring.gpg \
&& echo "deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture) signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/githubcli-archive-keyring.gpg] https://cli.github.com/packages stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/github-cli.list > /dev/null \
&& sudo apt update \
&& sudo apt install gh -y
sudo apt update
sudo apt install gh

To give access gh to GitHub profile, create access token on page: https://github.com/settings/tokens/new

gh auth login --with-token < mytoken.txt

GitHub cli has wonderful --help parameter for each command and any use case.