gitignoreio.sh

#!/bin/bash

result=$(curl "http://www.gitignore.io/api/$1" 2>/dev/null)

if [[ $result =~ ERROR ]]; then
    echo "Query '$1' has no match. See a list of possible queries with '$(basename "$0") list'"
elif [[ $1 = list ]]; then
    echo "$result"
else
    if [[ -f .gitignore ]]; then
        echo ".gitignore already exists, aborting."
    else
        echo "$result" > .gitignore
    fi
fi

#
# From https://github.com/kqr/gists/blob/master/utils/gi
#

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