A while ago I made a tiny function in my ~/.zshrc to download a video from the link in my clipboard. I use this nearly every day to share videos with people without forcing them to watch it on whatever site I found it. What’s a script/alias that you use a lot?

# Download clipboard to tmp with yt-dlp
tmpv() {
  cd /tmp/ && yt-dlp "$(wl-paste)"
}
  • thingsiplay@beehaw.org
    2·
    10 hours ago

    For the newer version of program, that’s why we have the $PATH. You put your program into one of the directories that is in your $PATH variable, then you can access your script or program from any of these like a regular program. Check the directories with echo "$PATH" | tr ':' '\n'

    My custom scripts and programs directory is “~/.local/bin”, but it has to be in the $PATH variable too. Every program and script i put there can be run like any other program. You don’t even need an alias for this specific program in example.