quickgist

quickgist is a simple command line tool for creating gists. Files can be specified as the sources argument or piped in via stdin. URLs are automatically shortened with git.io.

Install

pypi

pip install quickgist

source

git clone https://github.com/astocko/quickgist.git
cd quickgist
python setup.py install

Usage

usage: quickgist [-h] [-f F] [-d D] [-p] [-l] [-nl] [-v]
                 [sources [sources ...]]

quickgist is a simple command line tool for creating gists.

positional arguments:
  sources     gist content sources, ex: test.txt, test1.txt test2.txt,
              test/*.txt

optional arguments:
  -h, --help  show this help message and exit
  -f F        gist filename, only used for stdin or to override single input
              filename
  -d D        gist description
  -p          private gist
  -l          long url, will not shorten
  -nl         suppress newline after url, good for xclip
  -v          show program's version number and exit

Examples

$ quickgist file.txt
$ quickgist -d "some files" file.txt src/*.py
$ cat foo | quickgist -f foo.txt
$ xclip -sel c -o | quickgist
$ quickgist -nl -d "markdown" *.md | xclip -sel c

Notes

Please define an environment variable GIST_TOKEN with your GitHub personal access token.

$ export GIST_TOKEN="YOUR_TOKEN_HERE"