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Date:      Sun, 9 Dec 2007 23:37:25 -0500
From:      Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com>
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: copying DVD material :: somewhat OT. youtube-dl
Message-ID:  <18268.49797.156298.134440@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
In-Reply-To: <475CC0D6.6010409@gmail.com>
References:  <475CC0D6.6010409@gmail.com>

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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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