Creating the gists using commandline

github gist.md

using github client - gh https://cli.github.com/manual/gh_gist

create

add --public for creating public gist; if not given, by default created - secret

$ gh gist create --public hello.py

# create a gist with a description
$ gh gist create hello.py -d "my Hello-World program in Python"

# create a gist containing several files
$ gh gist create hello.py world.py cool.txt

list

lists the gists created in your account

# list all
$ gh gist list

# add --public 
# Show only public gists
$ gh gist list --public

# add --secret 
# Show only secret gists
$ gh gist list --secret

edit

edits the existing created gist

$ gh gist edit "<id_of_gist>" -f "<file_name_which_needs_to_be_modified>"

# ex
$ gh gist edit 1de.....2b8 -f hello.py

api

• call the arbitary github api endpoint
• for list of all github apis endpoint visit -
• jq - json query - tutorials - visit - https://jqlang.github.io/jq/tutorial/

# see gists starred by you 
$ gh api /gists/starred --jq ".[] | {description: .description,url: .html_url}"

# see the gists created by you
$ gh api /gists --jq ".[] | {description: .description,url: .html_url}"

Note:

# need to set the default gist editor (needed for edit!)
$ gh config set editor "code --wait"

• for above to work on windows, created new dir - C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Local\Programs\VS_Code
• put the below contents (only pointed the path correctly)

@echo off
setlocal
set VSCODE_DEV=
set ELECTRON_RUN_AS_NODE=1
"%~dp0..\Microsoft VS Code\Code.exe" "%~dp0..\Microsoft VS Code\resources\app\out\cli.js" %*
endlocal