copying DVD material :: somewhat OT. youtube-dl

Robert Huff roberthuff at rcn.com
Sun Dec 9 20:37:27 PST 2007


Chris said:
>  
>  >I tried youtube-dl but every url I tried gave
>  >youtube-dl: No match.
>  >eg
>  >%youtube-dl http://youtube.com/watch?v=gpIM3nBR2ZA
>  >youtube-dl: No match.

	You have to quote the URL:

huff@> youtube-dl "http://youtube.com/watch?v=gpIM3nBR2ZA"

	The shell parses "http://youtube.com/watch?v=gpIM3nBR2ZA", sees
the '?', thinks it's a shell glob character, and does the usual
thing.  Which turns out to not be the Right Thing.


				Robert Huff


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