Gists’s search supports a variety of different operations.

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Here’s a quick cheat sheet for some of the common searches.

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BASIC_SEARCH

[This search]	Finds repositories with…
[cat stars:>100]	Find cat gists with greater than 100 stars.
[user:defunkt]	Get all gists from the user defunkt.
[cat anon:true]	Include anonymous gists in your search for cat-related gists.
[NOT cat]	Excludes all results containing cat.
[cat fork:only]	Search all forked gists for results containing cat.

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CONTENTS_SEARCH

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Gist search looks through the file contents by default.
You can also filter the results:

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[This search]	Finds gists with…
[filename:.bashrc]	Find all gists with a ".bashrc" file.
[cat language:html]	Find all cat gists with HTML files.
[join extension:coffee]	Find all instances of join in gists with a coffee extension.
[system size:>1000]	Find all instances of system in gists containing a file larger than 1000kbs.

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