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made my first bash file to make yt-dlp easier (lemmy.ml)
submitted 20 hours ago by RavenofDespair@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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made it so i just click file and paste YouTube url

Linux is amazing

#! /usr/bin/bash
echo "Enter a url"
read a

yt-dlp -x $a
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[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 8 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

One thing that will become important pretty quick if you continue making these scripts is that it’s almost always better to wrap your variables in quotes - so it becomes yt-dlp -x “$a”.

Oh man, this reminds me of the joke that any program that's more complex than Hello World has bugs – and folks still don't even agree how to spell "Hello, World!".

Of course, Bash is a particular minefield in this regard...

[-] 18107@aussie.zone 14 points 14 hours ago

I once wrote a 2 line, 10 word script that had 9 bugs in it. I'm not overly proud of that one.

[-] draco_aeneus@mander.xyz 3 points 10 hours ago

I think you might have a career as an accomplished entymologist ahead of you with so much success finding bugs!

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