gh gist create

Create a new gist

Synopsis

Create a new GitHub gist with given contents.

Gists can be created from one or multiple files. Alternatively, pass "-" as file name to read from standard input.

By default, gists are private; use '--public' to make publicly listed ones.

gh gist create [<filename>... | -] [flags]

Examples

# publish file 'hello.py' as a public gist
$ gh gist create --public hello.py

# create a gist with a description
$ gh gist create hello.py -d "my Hello-World program in Python"

# create a gist containing several files
$ gh gist create hello.py world.py cool.txt

# read from standard input to create a gist
$ gh gist create -

# create a gist from output piped from another command
$ cat cool.txt | gh gist create

Options

  -d, --desc string       A description for this gist
  -f, --filename string   Provide a filename to be used when reading from STDIN
  -p, --public            List the gist publicly (default: private)
  -w, --web               Open the web browser with created gist

Options inherited from parent commands

      --help   Show help for command