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)"
}
  • jsomae@lemmy.ml
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    7 months ago

    I wrote a script called please. You input please followed by any other command (e.g. please git clone, please wget blahblah) and a robotic voice will say “affirmative,” then the command will run, and when it completes, the robotic voice reads out the exit code (e.g. “completed successfully” or “failed with status 1” etc.)

    This is useful for when you have a command that takes a long time and you want to be alerted when it’s finished. And it’s a gentleman.

    • Azzk1kr@feddit.nlEnglish
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      7 months ago

      You can also use something like notifyd to generate a pop up for visual feedback :) I can’t remember the exact command right now though. Differs per distro or desktop environment, obviously.

      • Ferk@lemmy.ml
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        7 months ago

        Also, printf '\a' will output an alert bell character which should make the terminal beep/blink and be highlighted for attention by your wm/compositor if it’s unfocused.

        I have that aliased to a to get notified whenever a long running command finishes just by adding ;a at the end.