Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 00:46:40 +0000 From: Chris Whitehouse <cwhiteh@onetel.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: copying DVD material :: somewhat OT. Message-ID: <475C8C70.7070406@onetel.com> In-Reply-To: <20071210001117.GA17435@owl.midgard.homeip.net> References: <20071208210331.GA1241@thought.org> <475B0A21.5000708@math.arizona.edu> <200712091445.23000.kneel.pardoe@virgin.net> <475C2014.6010805@math.arizona.edu> <475C80DE.40505@onetel.com> <20071210001117.GA17435@owl.midgard.homeip.net>
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Erik Trulsson wrote: > On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 11:57:18PM +0000, Chris Whitehouse wrote: >> Predrag Punosevac wrote: >> >>> My Dear Friend, >>> You will have to wait for a very long time then since all of the above >>> except Flash (which Adobe does release for Linux but not for FreeBSD) >>> works flawlessly on FreeBSD including watching YouTube (just use >>> youtube-dl to snap the video and play with VLC). There are even >>> alternative solutions for the Flash unless you want to play video games >>> full of Flash! >> 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. > > To get that example to work try: > > youtube-dl 'http://youtube.com/watch?v=gpIM3nBR2ZA' > > instead. The quote marks are important, because otherwise the shell > will try to interpret the "?" in the URL as a wildcard and try to do wildcard > expansion as if it was a filename. It is the shell (not youtube-dl) > which gives the error message, when it cannot find any file that matches. > > This is nothing specific to youtube-dl. It is just the way most shells > under Unix work. If you do not want the shell to try to interpret any > 'funny' characters in an argument to the command you need to enclose the > argument in quote marks. > Yes that works, thanks everyone Chris
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