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this is with respect to Error while using youtube-dl

while doing the below command on terminal:

add alias youtube-dl='/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl' in your .bashrc

got following message:

No command 'add' found, did you mean:
 Command 'ad' from package 'netatalk' (universe)
 Command 'atd' from package 'at' (main)
 Command 'adb' from package 'android-tools-adb' (universe)
 Command 'adb' from package 'adb' (universe)
 Command 'tdd' from package 'devtodo' (universe)
 Command 'ldd' from package 'libc-bin' (main)
 Command 'dd' from package 'coreutils' (main)
 Command 'axd' from package 'afnix' (universe)
 Command 'ddd' from package 'ddd' (universe)
 Command 'aid' from package 'id-utils' (universe)
 Command 'and' from package 'and' (universe)
 Command 'adbd' from package 'android-tools-adbd' (universe)
 Command 'amd' from package 'am-utils' (universe)
 Command 'hadd' from package 'root-system-bin' (universe)
add: command not found

what to do now ?

dufte
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The correct alias (as you describe) should be added to your .bashrc file if you enter the following into a terminal:

echo "alias youtube-dl='/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl'" >> ~/.bashrc

I'm also assuming this is unnecessary since anything in /usr/local/bin/ should be able to be accessed from the terminal anyway. Check that this is the case with the following:

which youtube-dl

If /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl returns as the answer, then the above is completely unnecessary, and you can ignore this step. However, if you want to customize youtube-dl so that everytime you run it, you run it with "options", you can add them to the previously created alias in your .bashrc file, such that anything you would type after youtube-dl gets placed before the last single-quote:

nano ~/.bashrc
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