Provided by: gist_5.0.0-4ubuntu1_all 
NAME
gist - upload code to https://gist.github.com
Synopsis
The gist gem provides a gist command that you can use from your terminal to upload content to
https://gist.github.com/.
Installation
• If you have ruby installed:
gem install gist
• If you´re using Bundler:
source :rubygems gem ´gist´
• For OS X, gist lives in Homebrew
brew install gist
Command
• To upload the contents of a.rb just:
gist-paste a.rb
• Upload multiple files:
gist-paste a b c gist *.rb
• By default it reads from STDIN, and you can set a filename with -f.
gist-paste -f test.rb <a.rb
• Alternatively, you can just paste from the clipboard:
gist-paste -P
• Use -p to make the gist private:
gist-paste -p a.rb
• Use -d to add a description:
gist-paste -d "Random rbx bug" a.rb
• You can update existing gists with -u:
gist-paste -u GIST_ID FILE_NAME gist -u 42f2c239d2eb57299408 test.txt
• If you´d like to copy the resulting URL to your clipboard, use -c.
gist-paste -c <a.rb
• If you´d like to copy the resulting embeddable URL to your clipboard, use -e.
gist-paste -e <a.rb
• And you can just ask gist to open a browser window directly with -o.
gist-paste -o <a.rb
• To list (public gists or all gists for authed user) gists for user
gist-paste -l : all gists for authed user gist -l defunkt : list defunkt´s public gists
To read a gist and print it to STDOUT
gist -r GIST_ID
gist -r 374130
• See gist --help for more detail.
Login
If you want to associate your gists with your GitHub account, you need to login with gist. It doesn´t
store your username and password, it just uses them to get an OAuth2 token (with the "gist" permission).
gist-paste --login
Obtaining OAuth2 access_token from github.
GitHub username: ConradIrwin
GitHub password:
2-factor auth code:
Success! https://github.com/settings/tokens
This token is stored in ~/.gist and used for all future gisting. If you need to you can revoke it from
https://github.com/settings/tokens, or just delete the file.
• After you´ve done this, you can still upload gists anonymously with -a.
gist-paste -a a.rb
If you have a complicated authorization requirement you can manually create a token file by pasting a
Github token with only the gist permission into a file called ~/.gist. You can create one from
https://github.com/settings/tokens
This file should contain only the token (~40 hex characters), and to make it easier to edit, can
optionally have a final newline (\n or \r\n).
For example, one way to create this file would be to run:
echo MY_SECRET_TOKEN > ~/.gist
GitHub Enterprise
If you´d like gist to use your locally installed GitHub Enterprise https://enterprise.github.com/, you
need to export the GITHUB_URL environment variable (usually done in your ~/.bashrc).
export GITHUB_URL=http://github.internal.example.com/
Once you´ve done this and restarted your terminal (or run source ~/.bashrc), gist will automatically use
github enterprise instead of the public github.com
Your token for GitHub Enterprise will be stored in .gist.<protocol>.<server.name>[.<port>] (e.g.
~/.gist.http.github.internal.example.com for the GITHUB_URL example above) instead of ~/.gist.
If you have multiple servers or use Enterprise and public GitHub often, you can work around this by
creating scripts that set the env var and then run gist. Keep in mind that to use the public GitHub you
must unset the env var. Just setting it to the public URL will not work. Use unset GITHUB_URL
Token file format
If you cannot use passwords, as most Enterprise installations do, you can generate the token via the web
interface and then simply save the string in the correct file. Avoid line breaks or you might see: $ gist
-l Error: Bad credentials
You can also use Gist as a library from inside your ruby code:
Gist.gist("Look.at(:my => ´awesome´).code")
If you need more advanced features you can also pass:
• :access_token to authenticate using OAuth2 (default is `File.read("~/.gist")).
• :filename to change the syntax highlighting (default is a.rb).
• :public if you want your gist to have a guessable url.
• :description to add a description to your gist.
• :update to update an existing gist (can be a URL or an id).
• :anonymous to submit an anonymous gist (default is false).
• :copy to copy the resulting URL to the clipboard (default is false).
• :open to open the resulting URL in a browser (default is false).
NOTE: The access_token must have the "gist" scope.
• If you want to upload multiple files in the same gist, you can:
Gist.multi_gist("a.rb" => "Foo.bar", "a.py" => "Foo.bar")
• If you´d rather use gist´s builtin access_token, then you can force the user to obtain one by
calling:
Gist.login!
• This will take them through the process of obtaining an OAuth2 token, and storing it in ~/.gist,
where it can later be read by Gist.gist
Configuration
• If you´d like -o or -c to be the default when you use the gist executable, add an alias to your
~/.bashrc (or equivalent). For example:
alias gist=´gist -c´
• If you´d prefer gist to open a different browser, then you can export the BROWSER environment
variable:
export BROWSER=google-chrome
If clipboard or browser integration don´t work on your platform, please file a bug or (more ideally) a
pull request.
If you need to use an HTTP proxy to access the internet, export the HTTP_PROXY or http_proxy environment
variable and gist will use it.
Meta-fu
Thanks to @defunkt and @indirect for writing and maintaining versions 1 through 3. Thanks to @rking and
@ConradIrwin for maintaining version 4.
Licensed under the MIT license. Bug-reports, and pull requests are welcome.
May 2018 GIST(1)