Upload a file to a Gist with bash
I usually paste error reports and logs on Gist at Github, to exchange programming relevant debug information. Gist doesn’t have a button to upload a file. So sometimes it is not so convenient to copy and paste your large errorreports into gists textarea for input.
Is there a way to upload a file from the commandline into a new Gist in your Gist account?
also creating a temporary git repository for the file to upload would help, I would automate this in a script then.
In the end I would like to automate posting debug information of my programming project on github with one bash script
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Here is a solution that works for me on Bash/Dash to create anonymous gist (very probably not bullet-proof):
# 0. Your file name
FNAME=some.file
# 1. Somehow sanitize the file content
# Remove \r (from Windows end-of-lines),
# Replace tabs by \t
# Replace " by \"
# Replace EOL by \n
CONTENT=$(sed -e 's/\r//' -e's/\t/\\t/g' -e 's/"/\\"/g' "${FNAME}" | awk '{ printf($0 "\\n") }')
# 2. Build the JSON request
read -r -d '' DESC <<EOF
{
"description": "some description",
"public": true,
"files": {
"${FNAME}": {
"content": "${CONTENT}"
}
}
}
EOF
# 3. Use curl to send a POST request
curl -X POST -d "${DESC}" "https://api.github.com/gists"
If you need to create a gist associated with your github account, (for basic authentication) replace the last line by:
curl -u "${GITHUB_USERNAME}" -X POST -d "${DESC}" "https://api.github.com/gists"
For more advanced authentification schemes, please see https://developer.github.com/v3/#authentication
See https://github.com/defunkt/gist
It’s a Ruby script that can be used from the command line.
You should be able to create a new Gist, using the GitHub API for creating a Gist:
POST /gists
You will find various script using this API, like:
- this gist.el emacs function.
- this php script
- this
curlcommand
Even the GitHub editor Atom.io has a gist-it feature.
