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@foone@digipres.clubfor every ffmpeg option, there exists a matching small script written by some frustrated programmer who can't remember the arguments, so they wrote a script to remember it for them
@foone And is also angry about spaces in filenames and how much of a goddamned PITA using IFS is, especially if you also need to invoke docker in a container. Oh wait, that's just me, nevermind.
@foone I did this with tar lmao
ctar, xtar, and ttar, which create, extract, and list contents of, gzipped tarballs.
They're in my bashrc as:
alias ctar=tar -czvf
alias xtar=tar -xzvf
alias ttar=tar -tzvf
@dragonarchitect i appreciate that you use the same argument order as me, as well as the leading dash lol
@dragonarchitect iirc the dash, and even the z are not necessary on modern versions of tar, but i still use them out of habit
edit: might need the z in combination with c though, i'm not certain on that without looking it up
@krishean @dragonarchitect @foone
Ich kann mich nicht erinnern daß ich bei tar jemals Bindestriche verwenden musste. Schon seit SCO xenix nicht. ;-)
@Michie164 @dragonarchitect @foone all the examples still have them, so it's how i learned the command. i doubt any of the examples were published long enough ago for it to need the dash though lol
@dragonarchitect @foone
c create
x extract
t targets
v verbose
z comprezzed (zlib)
f file (requires an argument)
the order doesn't really matter
Except for the -f option. That one has to go last so that you can specify the output file name, if you are concatenating all of the options together, that is. If you're specifying them individually as -c -v -z -f then order doesn't matter since the input file name goes with -f.@dragonarchitect @foone the trick is that the file must come directly after the f because it's its value!
@dragonarchitect @foone i often just `tar cf thing.tar *`, verbose is too verbose and compressing is unnecessary. personally i find the wrappers to be more cumbersome here
@dragonarchitect @foone You don't need this
tar - xf autodetects the correct method.
@dragonarchitect
Wait... tar accepts a hyphen in front of parameters now? I am too old for this.
@foone
@foone i do the same for build systems, so instead of having to remember a dozen steps to set up a build environment and build $thing, i just have a bash script called $thing_build.sh
@foone I have one for every format I'd want to encode to mp3, yeah :)
@foone this is the only way I use ffmpeg or imagemagick
@foone hah, I just have them saved in an organized .txt file and manually type them out every time!
@foone youtube-dl is one of those scripts that got out of hand
Yep, "out of hand" is a nice way to put it.
CC: @foone@digipres.club
@deoxys314 @foone and I still have to check the docs any time I'm trying to filter quality profiles or formats 
@foone `other-transcode.rb` by @lisamelton is this writ large.
@foone i uh... i uh... i have a folder full of bash scripts and a lot of aliases in my bashrc file... hell no am i memorizing everything single damn command with their proper args and regex.
@elementals right, ffmpreg
@foone absolutely true, everything i do with ffmpeg is a shell script in ~/bin
@foone yeah this is why I have a pile of shell scripts for doing different visualizer effects for my audio tracks, and why I wish any of the editing software I used just had this shit built-in because it's not like ffmpeg's is even very good
@foone I almost started writing such a script but then I realised the set of ffmpeg arguments I need to use is insufficiently deterministic for the script to actually end up being small.
@foone i literally have one discord channel on my private server just named „ffmpeg-codes“ for conversions so common i don’t even bother typing them
And also a powershell script so ffmpeg would run an entire folder for it
@foone And I have a whole daemon that handles everything for me.
@foone still better than a gui which needs screenshots to document how to convert the video.
Last time I had to timelapse a dozen videos from an even. Wrote one script, called it multiple times in a loop.
No need to sit in front of the pc.
@foone yes, I belief, that's accurate. 
@foone it's funny 'cause it's true...
@foone Oh I have like four or five of these
@foone I have the meta problem now - I can't recall in _which_ script I used certain options to do things and have to hunt through them all ...
This seems like something shells should do automatically
"This is the 25th time you've run this exact same command.
What do want to name the script that runs it [it will be stored in ~/bin/]? > "
Ha! Yeah. Thank goodness for web searches. Every time I need to do something like change metadata or codecs, I'm back to them.
How in the heck did this thread turn into a treatise on invoking tar? Also, 't is for targets'?
@foone i have done this
@foone I feel called out 