#gist #client #token #text #directory #filename #file

app rust-gist

Yet another Gist client

5 releases

Uses old Rust 2015

0.1.4 Nov 8, 2017
0.1.3 Oct 10, 2017
0.1.2 Oct 6, 2017
0.1.1 Oct 6, 2017
0.1.0 Oct 5, 2017

#5 in #gist

MIT license

11KB
277 lines

rust-gist

Yet another Gist publishing client.

How to install

If you have cargo installed, you can install via cargo:

$ cargo install rust-gist

Otherwise, grab a release tarball with binary.

How to use

  1. Grab a personal token from Github settings page. Then run rust-gist token YOUR_TOKEN. This would save token to ~/.config/rust-gist directory in plain text.

  2. After that, just run rust-gist filename.txt to upload it to Github Gist (you'll get a link to uploaded file back.

Pro tips

Stdin redirection

You can pipe text to rust-gist and it would upload that text to the gist.github.com:

$ tail longlog.txt | rust-gist

Copying to clipboard

On Mac OS, add | pbcopy to automatically copy URL to the clipboard:

$ rust-gist some-file.js | pbcopy

License

rust-git was written in 2017 by Tim Marinin and is licensed under terms of MIT license.

Dependencies

~21–30MB
~558K SLoC