Gist: The Script
Works great with Gist: The Website.
Installation
brew install gist
gist -h
RubyGems:
gem install gist
gist -h
Old school:
curl -s https://github.com/defunkt/gist/raw/master/gist > gist &&
chmod 755 gist &&
mv gist /usr/local/bin/gist
Ubuntu:
sudo apt-get install ruby
sudo apt-get install rubygems
sudo apt-get install libopenssl-ruby
sudo gem install gist
sudo cp /var/lib/gems/1.8/bin/gist /usr/local/bin/
gist -h
Use
$ gist < file.txt
$ echo secret | gist --private # or -p
$ echo "puts :hi" | gist -t rb
$ gist script.py
$ gist script.js notes.txt
$ gist -
the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
^D
Authentication
There are two ways to set GitHub user and token info:
Using env vars GITHUB_USER and GITHUB_TOKEN:
$ export GITHUB_USER="your-github-username"
$ export GITHUB_TOKEN="your-github-token"
$ gist ~/example
Or by having your git config set up with your GitHub username and token.
git config --global github.user "your-github-username"
git config --global github.token "your-github-token"
You can find your token under your account.
You can also define github.token to be a command which returns the
actual token on stdout by setting the variable to a command string
prefixed with !. For example, the following command fetches the
token from a password item named "github.token" on the Mac OS
Keychain:
token = !security 2>&1 >/dev/null find-generic-password -gs github.token | ruby -e 'print $1 if STDIN.gets =~ /^password: \\\"(.*)\\\"$/'
Defaults
You can set a few options in your git config (using git-config(1)) to control the default behavior of gist(1).
gist.private - boolean (yes or no) - Determines whether to make a gist private by default
gist.extension - string - Default extension for gists you create.
gist.browse - boolean (yes or no) - Whether to open the gist in your browser after creation. Default: yes
Proxies
Set the HTTP_PROXY env variable to use a proxy.
$ HTTP_PROXY=host:port gist file.rb
Manual
Visit http://defunkt.github.com/gist/ or use:
$ gist -m