Takes contents of clipboard, syntax highlights them, pasts them into a gist, opens the gist in a browser, and puts syntax highlighted version of text in clipboard for pasting into Evernote/email/etc

gst.sh

#!/bin/bash

# Takes contents of clipboard, syntax highlights them, places a copy in "gists" directory in Google Drive, pastes them into a gist, opens the gist in a browser, and puts syntax highlighted version of text in clipboard for pasting into Evernote/email/etc

# requires:
#* gist (https://github.com/defunkt/gist)
#* Google Drive
#* highlight (brew install highlight)
#* an alias that will run this file `alias gst="~/gst.sh"`

# Call like:
# gst gistname.ext "gist description"

echo "creating $1 at:"

gist -P -o -f $1 -d "$2"

touch "/Users/cmcculloh/Google Drive/gists/$1"

pbpaste > "/Users/cmcculloh/Google Drive/gists/$1"

extension="${1##*.}"

highlight -O rtf -t 2 -K 11 -k 'Source Code Pro' --syntax $extension "/Users/cmcculloh/Google Drive/gists/$1" | pbcopy