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Need short alias for --config-location

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Description

–config-location is excessively long especially if one uses it more than once. even using it only once it is still longer than some thing the config might be holding. Ex:

yt-dlp --config-location MusicAlbums.conf <url>
vs
ytdlp -x --audio-format mp3 <url>

so something like -CL <config-location> would shorten it and make it much less annoying for short but less memorable strings

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Created a year ago
Comments:8 (2 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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pukkandancommented, Apr 18, 2022

Option names can be shortened as long as there is no ambiguity. So --config works

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DaVypercommented, Aug 14, 2022

It’s not an error, you need to specify a config file after --conf/–config-location as yt-dlp isn’t a mind reader

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