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Share a script/alias you use a lot (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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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)"
}
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[-] Ferk@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

alias lt='ls -t | less'

Good idea! I'll steal that but I would rather be able to give a directory path as parameter (and show in colors, and don't pause if less than 1 page of content, and support the scrolwheel), also piping ls forces it to be 1 single column so might as well show more details, personally I'm gonna use this instead:

lt() { ls -t --color=always -Fgoh "$@" | less -RF --mouse; }
[-] JTskulk@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Thanks for sharing! My ls is already aliased to ls -h --color=auto

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