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Share a script/alias you use a lot (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 1 day ago by als@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] golden_zealot@lemmy.ml 13 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] timbuck2themoon@sh.itjust.works 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Pretty sure this only works on x distros? wl-copy and wl-paste are for Wayland FYI.

[–] golden_zealot@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 hours ago

Yep, pretty sure you are right.

[–] mmmm@sopuli.xyz 9 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

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 $@`