Linux @lemmy.ml als @lemmy.blahaj.zone 2d ago

Share a script/alias you use a lot

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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alias clip='xclip -selection clipboard'

When you pipe to this, for example ls | clip, it will stick the output of the command ran into the clipboard without needing to manually copy the output.
- Pretty sure this only works on x distros? wl-copy and wl-paste are for Wayland FYI.
  
  Yep, pretty sure you are right.
- I use a KDE variant of this that uses klipper instead (whatever you pipe to this will be available in klipper):
  
  ` #!/bin/sh
  
  function copy { if ! tty -s && stdin=$(</dev/stdin) && [[ "$stdin" ]]; then stdin=$stdin$(cat) qdbus6 org.kde.klipper /klipper setClipboardContents "$stdin" exit fi qdbus6 org.kde.klipper /klipper getClipboardContents } copy $@`

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