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Created March 15, 2012 13:16
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A Git.io URL Shortener Console Function
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gistfile1.sh
# If you are not on a Mac and do not want the URL
# copied to the clipboard, remove the pbcopy command.
function gitio () {
local url=$(curl -s -i http://git.io -F "url=$1" | grep "Location: " | cut -d" " -f2 | tr "" "\n")
echo "$url" | pbcopy
echo $url
}
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Usage is simple. The URL will be copied to your clipboard and echoed.

$ gitio https://gist.github.com/2044146

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