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How to create a new gist from OS X Service
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How to create a Public Gist Service:

Step 0: Open Automator, New Service.

Step 1: Drag out Run Shell Script action. Pass Input to STDIN

Step 2: This code:

open `gist`

This assumes you have the gist command line client installed (gem install gist), and your Github username and token set up in git config

My blog entry on the topic

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rwilcox commented Feb 6, 2012

stinkymatt,

Agreed - something changed in the gist command line parsing since I wrote this original gist. However, I've also since moved to using QuickHub (from the Mac App Store) to manage my Github/Gists on the desktop and that includes a really good "Create Gist From Selection" service.

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