Gister

Manage your gists from the command-line. You can even manage your gists using your favorite editor.

Demo

Create a github access token

• https://help.github.com/articles/creating-an-access-token-for-command-line-use/

Install

$ brew tap dutchcoders/homebrew-gister
$ brew install gister

Environment variables

• GITHUB_TOKEN: your github access token
• EDITOR: your favorite editor

Usage

usage: gister --editor="vim" --token="GITHUB_TOKEN"
       [<flags>] <command> [<flags>] [<args> ...]

Flags:
  --help          Show help.
  --debug         enable debug mode
  --editor="EDITOR"  editor to use
  --token="GITHUB_TOKEN"
                  github token
  --description=DESCRIPTION
                  description
  --public        public gist

Commands:
  help [<command>]
    Show help for a command.

  list [<flags>]
    list gists

  search [<flags>] <keyword>
    search gists

  download --gist=GIST [<flags>] [<files>]
    download gist

  cat --gist=GIST [<files>]
    cat gist to stdout

  create [<files>]
    create new gist with specified files

  info --gist=GIST
    show info gist

  edit --gist=GIST
    edit gist using editor

  delete --gist=GIST
    delete specified gist

Samples

Create a new gist

$ gister create
00da2a1fddaa77fb40e4

$ cat /tmp/test.txt | gister create
00da2a1fddaa77fb40e4

List gists

$ gister list
nl5887/00da2a1fddaa77fb40e4
nl5887/f74a0a0837f609af9552 test
nl5887/0f70d642f6c91f33535e Slack invite by email

from another github user:

$ gister list --user=msoap

Search gists

$ gister search test
nl5887/f74a0a0837f609af9552 test

Edit

$ gister edit f74a0a0837f609af9552
nl5887/f74a0a0837f609af9552 test

Delete a gist

$ gister delete --gist 960473f0df6f8e98d220

Cat a gist to stdout

$ gister cat --gist 960473f0df6f8e98d220 | grep '...'

Contributions

Contributions are welcome.

Thanks

Special thanks goes to:

• Sergey Mudrik for adding cat support

Creators

Remco Verhoef

• https://twitter.com/remco_verhoef
• https://twitter.com/dutchcoders

Copyright and license

Code and documentation copyright 2011-2015 Remco Verhoef.

Code released under the MIT license.