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Gists’s search supports a variety of different operations.


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


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.

CONTENTS_SEARCH


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


[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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