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GCLI-GISTS(1) General Commands Manual GCLI-GISTS(1) NAME gcli gists -- manage GitHub Gists SYNOPSIS gcli gists [-s] [-l] [-n n] [-u user] gcli gists create [-d description] [-f path] gist-file-name gcli gists delete [-y] gist-id gcli gists get gist-id file-name DESCRIPTION Use gcli gists to list, create, download or delete GitHub Gists. Without a subcommand specified, gcli gists will list Gists of the given or auto-de- tected user account. OPTIONS -l, --long Print a long list instead of a short table. -s, --sorted Reverse the output such that most recent items appear at the bot- tom. -u, --user owner List Gists of the given user. -n, --count n Fetch at least n gists. Setting n to -1 will fetch all gists. De- fault: 30. Note that on users with many gists fetching all gists can take a considerable amount of time and may result in rate lim- iting by the GitHub API. SUBCOMMANDS create Paste a new Gist. The following flags can be specified: -f, --file file Read the content from the specified file instead of stan- dard input. -d, --description description The description of the Gist to be created. delete Delete a Gist. The following options can be specified: -y, --yes Do not ask for confirmation before deleting the Gist. As- sume yes. get Download a file from a Gist. There are no options to this subcom- mand. EXAMPLES List neutaaaaan's Gists: $ gcli gists -u neutaaaaan Paste a new gist named foobar and read from foobar.txt: $ gcli gists create foobar < foobar.txt Delete gist with id 3b546069d2856e6051bbe3c1080f1b5d: $ gcli gists delete 3b546069d2856e6051bbe3c1080f1b5d Print foobar.txt from Gist with id 3b546069d2856e6051bbe3c1080f1b5d into your pager: $ gcli gists get 3b546069d2856e6051bbe3c1080f1b5d foobar.txt | $PAGER SEE ALSO git(1), gcli(1) AUTHORS Nico Sonack aka. herrhotzenplotz <nsonack@herrhotzenplotz.de> and contribu- tors. BUGS This subcommand only works on GitHub. It is not implemented for GitLab, as GitLab snippets work differently. Please report bugs via E-Mail to https://lists.sr.ht/~herrhotzenplotz/gcli- discuss. Alternatively you can report them on any of the forges linked at https://sr.ht/~herrhotzenplotz/gcli. However, the preferred and quickest method is to use the mailing list. gcli 2.12.0 30-May-2026 GCLI-GISTS(1)
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