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Search cheat sheet
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. |