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://raw.github.com/defunkt/gist/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
$ pbpaste | gist -p # Copy from clipboard - OSX Only
$ gist -
the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
^D

Authentication

There are two ways to set GitHub user and password info:

Using env vars GITHUB_USER and GITHUB_PASSWORD:

$ export GITHUB_USER="your-github-username"
$ export GITHUB_PASSWORD="your-github-password"
$ gist ~/example

Or by having your git config set up with your GitHub username and password.

git config --global github.user "your-github-username"
git config --global github.password "your-github-password"

You can also define github.password to be a command which returns the actual password on stdout by setting the variable to a command string prefixed with !. For example, the following command fetches the password from the Mac OS Keychain entry for the GitHub website (if you allow your browser to save passwords):

password = !security find-internet-password -a <your github username> -s github.com -w | tr -d '\n'

If you don't allow your browser to save passwords, you can use the following to fetch the password from a Keychain entry named "github.password" (you'll also need to create the Keychain entry):

password = !security find-generic-password -gs github.password -w | tr -d '\n'

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

Bugs

https://github.com/defunkt/gist/issues

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