A little plan9 Command to read github blobs

Copy this command to $home/bin/rc and call

github OPTIONS {USER/REPOSITORY} [FILE]

The command simply translates the arguments into

hget https://github.com/$repo/$mode/$branch/$file

. For mode=blob mode I use

hget https://github.com/$repo/$mode/$branch/$file|sed -ne '/<article/,/<\/article/p'|htmlfmt

where

• repo = USER/REPOSITORY # actually the first non-option argument (mandatory)
• file = FILE # actually the second non-option argument (default = README.md)
• branch = -b|--branch arg # the argument of the option -b or the long option --branch (default = master)
• mode = --blob # mode=blob for articles (as README.md). mode=raw is the default

Example

To read the README.md of this repository you simply use

github ikrabbe/github.rc

, to show the rc command itself you can use

github ikrabbe/github.rc github

and finally to install the command into your $home/bin/rc you can do

github ikrabbe/github.rc github > bin/rc/github; chmod 755 bin/rc/github

(of course you would need the github command before you can install it, in this example ;)).

Happy githubbing!