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test $# = 1|| exec echo usage: $0 itag-no sed -n ' s/http:/https:/; s/m.youtube/www.youtube/; s/youtu.be/youtube/; s/embed./watch?v=/; #etc.; s/;.*//; w.'"$0"'' read a .$0b; rm .$0…

For shells that lack echo -e and printf (yes, there are such shells; at least, I use one): echoe(){ local a=${#1}; echo $1 |dd bs=1 count=$a;}

Indeed. My apologies. Instructions to get the URL to the Hartl draft are the same, except: Substitute "learnenough.com/command-line" for "conqueringthecommandline.com/book" Script …

Use the command line to get the URLs for each chapter? Go to conqueringthecommandline.com/book Save the page source Insert the filename into the script below Alternatively, omit fi…

I guess journalists read HN looking for stories? I was suprised to spitbol mentioned on HN and now there is a story on Vice news? Alas, the interviewer asked no technical, interest…

Original source: http://int80h.org/bsdasm/ My recollection is this was published on the author's site years before being added to the "handbook" on the FreeBSD website. I could be …

I have a question: In his analogy, what represents the hardware and what represents the software? Wouldn't the change from horses to combustion engine be a change in hardware? And …

This is from 2012. He's wrong of course about being the only user. I love this software, along with k/q. I admire the work Mr. Shields has put into this project. I especially like …

Beautiful response to a recurrent misunderstanding. "Shell languages are defined by their terseness." It is common to see people put a layer of verbosity on top of the Bourne shell…

I don't know. It is a silly term. However I would be willing to bet you are using a bootloader and a kernel written by people who are comfortable with assembly language. Call them …

Muzzam's site: http://alotware.hol.es "Q: Why did you choose Assembly? A: It is easy, simple, and the language of real programmers." Will he still believe this when he's older? I h…

I wrote my own. I can change it faster when YouTube changes something than waiting for someone else. YouTube makes downloading very straightforward. No need for Perl, Python or any…

Here's a portable version for those of us who do not use Bash: a=$(printf '\xb%-47.s' \ |nc -uw1 ntp.metas.ch 123 \ |exec xxd -s40 -l4 -p) b=$(printf %d\\n 0x"$a") c=$((b-220898880…

Q: "... why aren't you using youtube-dl?" A: "holy crap that is convuluted" I do not use Python nor a Javascript-enabled web browser to download video. Both are big, convoluted, sl…

For me there are generally 3 steps to the process of watching a youtube video. 1. Get the video id. Retrieve HTML containing youtube /watch?v= urls or other urls that contain the v…

Thanks for this.