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)"
}
  • melimosaEnglish
    2•1 month ago

    That’s very good.

    Generalization and line feed customisation :

    function sloooower() {
	BASE_INTERVAL=${1:-0.05}
	RET_ADD_INTERVAL=${2:-0.1}
	CHAR_ADD_INTERVAL=${3:-0}
	while IFS= read -r -n1 char; do
		if [[ -z "$char" ]]; then
			sleep "${RET_ADD_INTERVAL}"
			printf "\n"
		else
			sleep "${CHAR_ADD_INTERVAL}"
			printf "%s" "$char"
		fi
		sleep "${BASE_INTERVAL}"
	done
}
alias sl='ls | sloooower'
    • melimosaEnglish
      1•1 month ago

      ( command | sloooower 0.000277 is pretty much a 3600 bauds output)