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Add id to the downloaded youtube playlist

I’ve downloaded a youtube playlist with youtube-dl is there any way i can rename the files i’ve downloaded to the appended id of the file in playlist. e.g. now xyz.mp4 abc.mkv want 1 – xyz.mp4 2 – abc.mkv (which is according to the number in the youtube playlist) Answer If the files ar…

redirecting stdin to tempfile in script

I want to write a bash script that receives a list of files through a pipe, writes a tempfile and then starts a program (qiv – an image viewer) with this tempfile. Example: where piped_qiv would look something like this: I’m probably missing something very basic about bash scripting but I was not …

Are linux shell pipes pipelined?

Given a file input.txt if I do something like is the output from the first command continuously passed (as soon as it is generated) as input to the second command? Or does the pipe wait until the first command finishes to start running the second command? Answer Yes, they’re pipelined — each compo…