youtube-dl doesn't start via cron when using option -o

[hollysheep]

hi,

normally i use youtube-dl on my raspberry pi without the option -o because the default outut dir it set in ~/.config/youtube/config:

-o /media/usb/youtube-dl/%(upload_date)s--%(title)s.%(ext)s

i want to check for new videos every day using cron, this works but only when i don't use the option -o. if noticed that when i use youtube-dl manually in terminal i have to quote the output name:

-o /media/usb/youtube-dl/'%(upload_date)s--%(title)s.%(ext)s'

but also this doesn't work in cron. this is the whole line that i use in cron:

59 10 * * * /home/pi/bin/youtube-dl -i --dateafter 20180917 -o /media/usb/youtube-dl/"Europa League"/'%(upload_date)s--%(title)s.%(ext)s' --download-archive /home/pi/.youtube-dl-archive.txt --match-title " - " https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLICWTVSt7RpHKkHdur-AYNbJoxY2w8KLg > /home/pi/youtube-log 2>&1

it works without the output dir but not with it. there also isn't a log file in my home dir. i also tried "" instead of ' ' but without any result. it makes "nothing". is there something different when using cron?

[dstftw]

You must quote the whole argument.