a script for publishing gists; depends on curl, python anad jq. it requires that the github authorization token be saved at ~/.github.gist.token

gist

#!/bin/sh

###########################################
#
# A script for publishing gists to github
# 
# requires that you create a file ~/.github.gist.token containing an personal access token for publishing gists (https://github.com/settings/tokens)
# 
# usage: 
# gist example.js all other parameters are concatenated for use as the description, other wise the filename is used as the description
# 
#
###########################################

token=$(jq -r .token ~/.github.gist.token)
file=$1
filename=$(basename $1)
if [[ ! -z "$2" ]]; then
	shift
fi
desc=$@

function json_escape {
	echo -n "$( < $1)" | python -c 'import json,sys;print(json.dumps(sys.stdin.read()))'
}
data=$(echo "\
{ \
 \"description\":\"$desc\", \
 \"public\":true, \
 \"files\": { \
 \"$filename\": { \
 \"content\": "$(json_escape $file)" \
 } \
 } \
}")

# echo -n $data > tmp.data.json
# curl -X POST -H "Authorization: token $token" --data @tmp.data.json https://api.github.com/gists
curl -X POST -H "Authorization: token $token" --data "$data" https://api.github.com/gists