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

submitted 8 months 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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[–] qpsLCV5@lemmy.ml 4 points 8 months ago

it's somewhat vibe coded but the one i probably use the most is this one to swap between speakers and headset. the device name to look for is just put directly in there, it'd take some adjustment to run it on different machines. this is in my .bashrc:

switch sinks

toggle_audio() {

Find headset sink ID dynamically

headset_id=$(pactl list sinks short | grep "Plantronics" | awk '{print $1}')

Find speakers sink ID dynamically

speakers_id=$(pactl list sinks short | grep "pci-0000_05_00.6" | awk '{print $1}')

Get current default sink

current_sink=$(pactl get-default-sink)

Get current sink ID

current_id=$(pactl list sinks short | grep "$current_sink" | awk '{print $1}')

Toggle between the two

if [ "$current_id" = "$headset_id" ]; then pactl set-default-sink "$speakers_id" echo "Switched to speakers (Sink $speakers_id)" else pactl set-default-sink "$headset_id" echo "Switched to headset (Sink $headset_id)" fi }

generally i try not to use too many custom things because for work i regularly work on all kinds of different servers and i've just been too lazy to set up some solution to keep it all in sync. someday....