Howto find a youtube-dl file in Fedora-32

mickeyboa · 01-12-2023, 11:21 AM

I cannot find a youtube-dl once it is downloaded.
This a file that has a large number of easy-listening music to it, and now that it is downloaded I cannot find it on my Fedora-32 computer, WHERE-IS-IT ?

[mickey@localhost ~]$ youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yufPWDBQ7l8
[youtube] yufPWDBQ7l8: Downloading webpage
[download] Destination: Самая красивая мелодия в мире! Эту музыку можно слушать вечно!Отличная музыка Сергей Грищук #29-yufPWDBQ7l8.mp4
[download] 100% of 2.95GiB in 10:09:45

fatmac · 01-12-2023, 12:04 PM

Search for all .mp4 files, if it isn't in your Downloads or Home directories.

Something like this -

Code:

find /home/* -name "*.mp4" > mp4files

Else you could try quoting the actual filename.

mickeyboa · 01-12-2023, 02:02 PM

[mickey@localhost ~]$ find /home/* -name "*.mp4" > mp4files
find: ‘/home/james’: Permission denied
find: ‘/home/jim’: Permission denied
find: ‘/home/lost+found’: Permission denied
^C
[mickey@localhost ~]$ su
Password:
[root@localhost mickey]# find /home/* -name "*.mp4" > mp4files
[root@localhost mickey]# find /home/* -name "*.mp4" > mp4files

It can't find anything

mickeyboa · 01-12-2023, 02:11 PM

My home directory is /mickey.

boughtonp · 01-12-2023, 05:14 PM

You haven't overridden any download/filesystem options and the download was successful, thus it is in the directory you were in when you ran the youtube-dl command, i.e: ~ , your home directory, and running "ls -l ~/*yufPWDBQ7l8.mp4" will list the file.

What you may notice from that is, by default, youtube-dl sets modified time to that the video's last modified time, hence if you sort by date it may not be the most recent file. There is a "--no-mtime" option to prevent that.