dinkypumpkin <[email protected]> wrote: >On 01/08/2013 16:08, Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer wrote: >> get_iplayer "baldi" --type=radio --get --aactomp3 -force
>If the above is a direct copy+paste, then you're missing a hyphen in >front of "force", so it would be ignored. It's a c&p from notes I made at the time, but I'm not sure if I c&p the command into the notes or retyped it. And experiments show not only that the "-force" isn't ignored, but - worse - had an unexpected effect. I tried this process again for another programme (using the R4 "Tweet of the Day' as a test as it's only a 2-minute programme, nice and quick!), and of course you're right about -force not doing a --force, and --force does do what it's meant to do. I tried to replicate what I saw last night, by deliberately issuing the command with "-force" in it, and each of these did do a refresh first. I was wondering if somehow that had been treated as "-f", but then I noticed something else odd... the refetched files were placed in a not previously extant folder, C:\rce so I was getting result files with names like: C:\rce\Tweet_of_the_Day_-_Dotterel_b02txxkl_default.mp3 Then I realised that that implies that "-force" has been parsed as if it meant an "-fo" parameter with value "rce". Or more likely that the parser for options starting with just a single hyphen 'stacks' them? So it WAS a case of the leading "-f" of "-force" being treated as -f, then the rest being treated as "-orce" (meaning override the output dir to "rce")? I really will need to take extra care not to have any single hyphens! -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own. _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
