[Request]A switch to force disable of simulate.

[Yetoo1]

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It would be nice if there was a switch that would force simulation not to occur. For example, it would be very nice if I could pass --get-filename and download the video at the same time rather than running youtube-dl twice. This would be nice if the aforementioned switch applied to all the --get simulation options.

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[dstftw]

--print-json && parse.

[Yetoo1]

What am I supposed to do with that output?
parse.txt

[dstftw]

Parse with any JSON parser, e.g. jq.