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
  • Ephera@lemmy.mlEnglish
    7·
    14 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.zoneEnglish
      13·
      13 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·
        8 hours ago

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