Creating a gist is straightforward, but editing a gist is a little tricky.
Create a gist
❯ shuf -n 3 /usr/share/dict/words > words.txt ❯ cat words.txt oomantia syngenic expensive ❯ gh gist create words.txt - Creating gist words.txt ✓ Created gist words.txt https://gist.github.com/f030560cfe3134340963a6031f89c3a3
View a gist
❯ id=$(gh gist list -L 1 | awk '{print $1}')
❯ gh gist view $id
oomantia
syngenic
expensive
Edit a gist
❯ shuf -n 3 /usr/share/dict/words > words.txt ❯ cat words.txt Gourinae triticism neocracy ❯ gh gist edit $id -a words.txt ❯ gh gist view $id Gourinae triticism neocracy
If you use -f option instead of -a, a text editor is launched to edit the file. If $EDITOR is not set, nano is used.
