mFattoLinux@lemmy.mlEnglish·3 months agoedit-23 months agoWhich CLI app/utility you wish there was a GUI for?message-squarearrow-up192arrow-down15message-square117file-textfedilink
arrow-up187arrow-down1message-squareWhich CLI app/utility you wish there was a GUI for?mFattoLinux@lemmy.mlEnglish·3 months agoedit-23 months agomessage-square117file-textfedilink
minus-squareeverettarrow-up8arrow-down0·3 months agolinkfedilink Too many options to remember and look up every time This is a good use case for shell aliases. If you can identify a few of your use cases, you can give each bundle of options its own command.
minus-squareamanneedsamaidEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down0·3 months agolinkfedilinkI do exactly this for downloading music, I aliased my preferred options to ‘yt-audio’
minus-squaremFatOPEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down0·3 months agolinkfedilinkWould you mind sharing your command?
minus-squareamanneedsamaidEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down0·2 months agolinkfedilinkThis is what I use (with zsh): yt-audio() { yt-dlp --no-playlist -f 'ba' -x --audio-format mp3 $1 } yt-audio-playlist() { yt-dlp -f 'ba' -x --audio-format mp3 $1 } It takes the best quality available and downloads it to mp3.
This is a good use case for shell aliases. If you can identify a few of your use cases, you can give each bundle of options its own command.
I do exactly this for downloading music, I aliased my preferred options to ‘yt-audio’
Would you mind sharing your command?
This is what I use (with zsh):
yt-audio() { yt-dlp --no-playlist -f 'ba' -x --audio-format mp3 $1 } yt-audio-playlist() { yt-dlp -f 'ba' -x --audio-format mp3 $1 }It takes the best quality available and downloads it to mp3.