Uploading to gist and sharing

Gist is a cool tool, here we are going to see how to use it from cli and use it as archiving or sharing utility.

Steps - 

• pip install python-gist
• create a personal token at github
• create a .gist file under $HOME with the following content

[gist]
token: 
editor: 

• Now you are set, use the following - 

gist create  - creates a new gist
gist edit    - edit the files in your gist
gist list    - prints a list of your gists
gist clone   - clones a gist
gist delete  - deletes a gist from github
gist files   - prints a list of the files in a gist
gist archive - downloads a gist and creates a tarball
gist content - prints the content of the gist to stdout
gist info    - prints detailed information about a gist
gist version - prints the current version