Hi Sharon,
> then issue the following command 'get_iplayer -g 33840' & onwards, but
> no matter what I do the end of the list shows up as '>' and doesn't
> allow me to download anything at all!
My hunch...
One of the parameters you have entered has a single quote, ‘'’, and that
starts a quoted string which can cross the end of the first line into
subsequent lines. The normal shell's prompt of ‘$’ changes to ‘>’ to
show this line is a continuation of the previous one.
$ echo foo
foo
$ echo foo'bar
> xyzzy'
foobar
xyzzy
$
Remove the quoting behaviour of the single quote by prefixing it with a
backslash, ‘\’, which is an ‘escape hatch’ for proving a literal quote
despite its special meaning. This is known as ‘escaping’, e.g. ‘escape
the ' with a \’.
--
Cheers, Ralph.
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