subject- command to download youtube videos - youtube-dl.pl AND
interesting thing about PATH
youtube is banning videos and suspending accounts, so it may be all
the more useful now to download videos . Even michelle malkin,
because of her politically right wing views, had a video removed. It
seems these events have occurred since youtube was taken over by
google. Notice that Google Video videos do not have comments on them
either. It is censorship.
anyhow. To download..
you can download and install the Perl interpreter. Then, download a
file called youtube-dl.pl and make sure it has the extension .pl
And 2 interesting things happen
a)it runs like a command as if it were .exe (I am not saying it
opens a program and runs. But it runs as if it were an EXE command!).
It is a command line thing. (it may open a program in the background
to produce the illusion, but anyhow)
One could save it to the desktop, and run it
c:\documents and settings\username\desktop\>youtube-dl.pl parameters
(parameters/arguments being the thing you pass to it).
b)it so runs like an executable (like an EXE,COM,BAT) that when you
type in the name of the pl file, remembering to say .pl , it
searches the PATH. As if PATH includes .pl as an executable along with
EXE,COM and BAT!! e.g. since c:\windows in in the PATH. If you copy
youtube-dl.pl there then you can type youtube-dl.pl from any
directory and it executes.
