gogist

Command line github gist creator in go

I really like github gist and use it a lot for sharing code/text. I like the convenience of command line. I like go. There.

Installing

Copy the binary to somewhere on your $PATH

cp gogist /usr/local/bin

Obtain Github API access token following the steps mentioned here (gogist just need access to gists so tick only gists when you create token)

gogist looks in $HOME/.config/gogist/GH-ACCESS-TOKEN file for the token. So put it there:

mkdir $HOME/.config/gogist

echo "YOUR ACCESS TOKEN" > $HOME/.config/gogist/GH-ACCESS-TOKEN

Usage

To upload content of a.txt just:

gogist a.txt

Upload multiple files (makes a single gist):

gogist a.txt b.txt c.txt

gogist *.txt

By default it reads from STDIN, and you can set a filename with -f:

gogist -f test.txt < a.txt

gogist makes private gists by default. To make it public, pass -p:

gogist -p a.txt

Use -d to add a description:

gogist -d "I am the description" a.txt

Other

defunkt/gist is a feature rich, cross platform cli gist creator.