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2014

gistcat

Go · CLI · open source
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gistcat is a CLI tool that works like cat but uploads to GitHub Gists instead of stdout. Pipe content to it or pass file paths, and it creates a Gist and gives you the URL.

Why I built it

We all used Gist pretty heavily back then for sharing code snippets with coworkers and friends. Having a command that would just cat something right to a Gist was a no-brainer. Built in Go so it's a single binary with no runtime dependencies.