GH-SEARCH(1) GitHub CLI manual GH-SEARCH(1) NAME gh-search - Search for repositories, issues, and pull requests SYNOPSIS gh search <command> [flags] DESCRIPTION Search across all of GitHub. Excluding search results that match a qualifier In a browser, the GitHub search syntax supports excluding results that match a search qualifier by prefixing the qualifier with a hyphen. For ex- ample, to search for issues that do not have the label "bug", you would use -label:bug as a search qualifier. gh supports this syntax in gh search as well, but it requires extra command line arguments to avoid the hyphen being interpreted as a command line flag because it begins with a hyphen. On Unix-like systems, you can use the -- argument to indicate that the ar- guments that follow are not a flag, but rather a query string. For example: $ gh search issues -- "my-search-query -label:bug" On PowerShell, you must use both the --% argument and the -- argument to produce the same effect. For example: $ gh --% search issues -- "my search query -label:bug" See the following for more information: - GitHub search syntax: <https://docs.github.com/en/search-github/getting-started-with-search- ing-on-github/understanding-the-search-syntax#exclude-re- sults-that-match-a-qualifier> - The PowerShell stop parse flag --%: <https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft.power- shell.core/about/about_parsing?view=powershell-7.5#the-stop-parsing-token> - The Unix-like -- argument: <https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/man- ual/bash.html#Shell-Builtin-Commands-1> AVAILABLE COMMANDS gh-search-code(1) Search within code gh-search-commits(1) Search for commits gh-search-issues(1) Search for issues gh-search-prs(1) Search for pull requests gh-search-repos(1) Search for repositories EXIT CODES 0: Successful execution 1: Error 2: Command canceled 4: Authentication required NOTE: Specific commands may have additional exit codes. Refer to the com- mand's help for more information. SEE ALSO gh(1) Aug 2026 GH-SEARCH(1)
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