My gist poster didnt want to add a description, boo hoo. The script posting robot has added this message. For your pleasure.

gist_wrapper.sh

#!/bin/bash

desc='My gist poster didnt want to add a description, boo hoo. The script posting robot has added this message. For your pleasure.'

function post_private_gist () {
  [[ -z "$1" ]] && {echo "Usage: post_private_gist [filename] [description]" }
  [[ -z "$2" ]] && {echo "No description, must be really awesome code."} | echo "Missing filename and description"

  desc=$2

  pbcopy < $1
   gist -f $1 \
    -d $desc \
    -s -P
}

function post_public_gist () {
  [[ -z "$1" ]] && {echo "Usage: post_private_gist [filename] [description]."}
  [[ -z "$2" ]] && {echo "No description? Gist viewers will be disappointed."; echo "Will add default message"} | echo "Missing filename and decription"

  pbcopy < $1

  gist -f $1 \
   -d $desc \
   -P
}

function login_gist () {
  gist --login
}