From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 10 00:46:54 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5861A16A418 for ; Mon, 10 Dec 2007 00:46:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cwhiteh@onetel.com) Received: from smtp1.bethere.co.uk (smtp1.betherenow.co.uk [87.194.0.68]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2165E13C448 for ; Mon, 10 Dec 2007 00:46:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cwhiteh@onetel.com) Received: from [192.168.1.71] (87-194-3-32.bethere.co.uk [87.194.3.32]) by smtp1.bethere.co.uk (Postfix) with SMTP id 90CC79825D for ; Mon, 10 Dec 2007 00:46:52 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <475C8C70.7070406@onetel.com> Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 00:46:40 +0000 From: Chris Whitehouse User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071206) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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> In-Reply-To: <20071210001117.GA17435@owl.midgard.homeip.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: copying DVD material :: somewhat OT. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 00:46:54 -0000 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