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Gist lets you embed a gist in a web page: <script src="https://gist.github.com/dyoo/4627246.js"></script> I was hoping I could have it display just a line range subset. (Use case: Write some code for a blog post in a single gist. Reference certain lines throughout the blog post discussing those lines.) Is this possible? I can't find it documented, but is there some way to do it? As an example of how I thought it might work, GitHub supports URIs with line numbers. For example, the #L4-L8 anchor in this: https://github.com/twitter/bootstrap/blob/master/docs/base-css.html#L4-L8 I realize GitHub

I am trying to create a gist from bash, and I have tried many versions scripts I could get, but none are working. This seems like a correct one, but it does not work also. curl -X POST -d '{"public":true,"files":{"test.txt":{"content":"String file contents"}}}' https://api.github.com/gists I have a test.txt file with content I would like to create the gist, but it won't work. It says, invalid email , if I try to add -u USER or -u USER:PASS it still won't work saying "message": "Problems parsing JSON", .. I don't know what is wrong. the documentation does not provide much except for this line: