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[yagoa]

What should I use instead of "echo" to pass the URL to a terminal program?

 

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Hi,

I'm guessing you're wanting to pass the URLs to "youtube-dl" as a parameter, right? Also, I'm assuming that if you type:

youtube-dl "http://some.valid.url/whatever"

...then it works for you.

In which case, the passed arguments come in as the variable $@. So you need to loop through the list like this:

for f in "$@"
do
  #your download code goes here
  youtube-dl "$f"
done

I wrote a short guide to doing this a little while ago here:

https://www.ghostotter.com/making-shell-scripts-little-user-friendly/

...you may find it useful!

Good luck.