Hi,

Assuming:

alias yt='/home/user/bin/yt-dlp'

and I want have more aliases incorporating this alias:

alias yt-native='yt --hls-prefer-native"
alias alias yt-auth='yt -u [email protected] -p password"

so that I don't have to repeat the location of yt-dlp.

Is that possible?

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On 2022-04-29, Ottavio Caruso <[email protected]> wrote:

Assuming:

alias yt='/home/user/bin/yt-dlp'

and I want have more aliases incorporating this alias:

alias yt-native='yt --hls-prefer-native"
alias alias yt-auth='yt -u [email protected] -p password"

so that I don't have to repeat the location of yt-dlp.

Is that possible?

So why don't you just try it?

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On 29/04/2022 15:44, Ottavio Caruso wrote:

Hi,

Assuming:

alias yt='/home/user/bin/yt-dlp'

and I want have more aliases incorporating this alias:

alias yt-native='yt --hls-prefer-native"
alias alias yt-auth='yt -u [email protected] -p password"

so that I don't have to repeat the location of yt-dlp.

Is that possible?

You type this _once_ into your .bash_aliases!
You could even repeat lines. Too much trouble?
Or are you just trolling?


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In comp.unix.shell, Ottavio Caruso <[email protected]> wrote:

Hi,

Assuming:

alias yt='/home/user/bin/yt-dlp'

and I want have more aliases incorporating this alias:

alias yt-native='yt --hls-prefer-native"
alias alias yt-auth='yt -u [email protected] -p password"

Yes. I'd say that method sucks, however. Personally I use a wrapper
script for yt-dlp that sets my preferred options and gives me handy
command line shortcuts.

But you can do some fun stuff with aliases.

When an alias definition ends with a space, the following term can also
be an alias. The typical use-case is an alias with nice, time, sudo or
the like that you would prefix to a regular comandline.
It can also be used to rename options.

alias yt='/home/user/bin/yt-dlp '
alias _native='--hls-prefer-native '
alias _auth='-u [email protected] -p password '
alias e='echo '

Now you can chain them, and order doesn't matter.

$ e yt _native _auth
/home/user/bin/yt-dlp --hls-prefer-native -u [email protected] -p password
$ e yt _auth _native
/home/user/bin/yt-dlp -u [email protected] -p password --hls-prefer-native
$

But seriously, write a wrapper script.

Elijah
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On 30.04.2022 03:13, Eli the Bearded wrote:

In comp.unix.shell, Ottavio Caruso <[email protected]> wrote:

Hi,

Assuming:

alias yt='/home/user/bin/yt-dlp'

and I want have more aliases incorporating this alias:

alias yt-native='yt --hls-prefer-native"
alias alias yt-auth='yt -u [email protected] -p password"

[...]

But seriously, write a wrapper script.

Or just use shell functions to avoid the restrictions of aliases and
get the advantages of both.

Janis

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On 30/04/2022 02:13, Eli the Bearded wrote:

In comp.unix.shell, Ottavio Caruso <[email protected]> wrote:

Hi,

Assuming:

alias yt='/home/user/bin/yt-dlp'

and I want have more aliases incorporating this alias:

alias yt-native='yt --hls-prefer-native"
alias alias yt-auth='yt -u [email protected] -p password"

Yes. I'd say that method sucks, however. Personally I use a wrapper
script for yt-dlp that sets my preferred options and gives me handy
command line shortcuts.

But you can do some fun stuff with aliases.

When an alias definition ends with a space, the following term can also
be an alias.

Ah, thanks. That's the one I was looking for. It's buried somewhere in
the man page (hints are welcome) but I can't find it. However...

But seriously, write a wrapper script.

I agree.



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On Sat, 30 Apr 2022 05:45:40 -0400, Ottavio Caruso <[email protected]> wrote:

Ah, thanks. That's the one I was looking for. It's buried somewhere in
the man page (hints are welcome) but I can't find it. However...

In GNU bash, version 5.1.4(1)-release the text in "man bash", the first paragraph
in the ALIASES section ends with ...

If the last character of the alias value is a blank, then the next command
word following the alias is also checked for alias expansion.

Regards, Dave Hodgins

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On 30/04/2022 18:15, David W. Hodgins wrote:

On Sat, 30 Apr 2022 05:45:40 -0400, Ottavio Caruso <[email protected]> wrote:

Ah, thanks. That's the one I was looking for. It's buried somewhere in
the man page (hints are welcome) but I can't find it. However...

In GNU bash, version 5.1.4(1)-release the text in "man bash", the first paragraph
in the ALIASES section ends with ...

If the last character of the alias value is a blank, then the next command
       word following the alias is also checked for alias expansion.

Regards, Dave Hodgins

Thanks.

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