Question: why proxy string appears commented in Youtube-dl config

[bendover22]

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What operating system do you use ?

mint 18.1

List of actions to perform to reproduce the problem:

1. ..general question - update youtube-dl, then run yt-dlg & download files.

2. ..Compare youtube-dl's config vs. youtube-dlg's settings.json files

3. ..

Is it normal for the "run this proxy" [the actual proxy address] in youtube-dl's config file to be commented out:

# Use this proxy
#--proxy socks5://127.0.0.1:xxxx/

, but... in youtube-dlg settings.json the proxy looks OK (to me):

"proxy": "socks5://127.0.0.1:xxxx/"

* When using youtube-dlg, why are all* settings stored in the yt-dl config file commented out? These are settings I changed in yt-dlg.

An unrelated question.
I updated yt-dl several days ago thru mint update manager (the PPA for youtube-dl is in the software sources). I checked its version today in terminal - typing at the prompt w/o entering a specific path:

$ youtube-dl --version

it returned "2018.03.03" - several times, but Synaptic shows v 2018.04.03 installed at /usr/bin. Which is an 87 byte file, but has modified date 2018.04.03.

If I enter the path /usr/bin & then the version query, it shows the correct version.

There's another "youtube-dl" installed at /usr/local/bin - STILL showing modified date 2018.03.02. Apparently that's the file terminal queries to get a version, but Synaptic knows the later ver is installed?

I ran yt-dlg after updating yt-dl & also rebooted the machine. So I don't know why the old version is shown in terminal?

In the future, I'd like to be able to confirm youtube-dl version easier than opening Synaptic update mgr or remembering the full path to the latest version file, to enter in terminal . Is there anyway Yt-dlg could show the installed yt-dl version, like in "about?" Since if using yt-dlg, no one interacts w/ the yt-dl files. I'm not sure if that's a feature request.

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[nodiscc]

Output of which youtube-dl ?

[bendover22]

Sorry for late reply. Exactly what do you mean, "Output of which youtube-dl ?"

If you meant "what's the output of the command, 'which youtube-dl' ", then it's: $ which youtube-dl /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl