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title: glab snippet create
stage: Create
group: Code Review
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Create a new snippet.

```plaintext
glab snippet create [flags] -t <title> <file1> [<file2>...]
glab snippet create [flags] -t <title> -f <filename>  # reads from stdin
```

## Aliases

```plaintext
new
```

## Examples

```console
$ glab snippet create script.py --title "Title of the snippet"
$ echo "package main" | glab snippet new --title "Title of the snippet" --filename "main.go"
$ glab snippet create -t Title -f "different.go" -d Description main.go
$ glab snippet create -t Title -f "different.go" -d Description --filename different.go main.go
$ glab snippet create --personal --title "Personal snippet" script.py

```

## Options

```plaintext
  -d, --description string   Description of the snippet. Set to "-" to open an editor.
  -f, --filename string      Filename of the snippet in GitLab.
  -p, --personal             Create a personal snippet.
  -t, --title string         (required) Title of the snippet.
  -v, --visibility string    Limit by visibility: 'public', 'internal', or 'private' (default "private")
```

## Options inherited from parent commands

```plaintext
  -h, --help              Show help for this command.
  -R, --repo OWNER/REPO   Select another repository. Can use either OWNER/REPO or `GROUP/NAMESPACE/REPO` format. Also accepts full URL or Git URL.
```
