pet - CLI Snippet Manager¶

2017-10-13 Discuss

This shell utility that makes it easy to save, search and recall shell commands. It uses GitHub Gists as the backend storage, so your work is backed up and accessible from multiple locations. Of course, since you are storing data publicly, make sure that you are sanitizing the data, so no secrets are shared.

Install and Configure¶

Install with Homebrew:

brew install pet

Create a new access token on GitHub that allows only the gist scope. Create a pet configuration file and set the access_token.

pet configure

Usage¶

Create new snippets:

pet new

List existing snippets:

pet list

Search for snippets:

pet search

Warning

The pet command does not have version validation associated with snippets uploaded to Gist, so it is possible to wipe out your snippets in two separate ways:

Downloading empty snippets from your Gist, which overwrite your local snippets.
Uploading empty local snippets to your Gist. Since GitHub stores revisions, you can recover from this.

Make sure that you have the latest snippets locally before updating your Gist.

Upload snippets to Gist:

pet sync -u

Download snippets from Gist:

pet sync