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Basic search.md

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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