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Created May 30, 2012 18:26
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Turn a github.com URL into a git.io URL. (LINUX)
#!/usr/bin/env ruby
# Usage: gitio URL [CODE]
#
# Turns a github.com URL
# into a git.io URL
#
# Copies the git.io URL to your clipboard. (requires xsel)
url = ARGV[0]
code = ARGV[1]
if url !~ /^(https?:\/\/)?(gist\.)?github.com/
abort "* github.com URLs only"
end
if url !~ /^http/
url = "https://#{url}"
end
if code
code = "-F code=#{code}"
end
output = `curl -i http://git.io -F 'url=#{url}' #{code} 2> /dev/null`
if output =~ /Location: (.+)\n?/
puts $1
`echo #$1 | xsel --clipboard --input`
else
puts output
end
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