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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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