Unable to download video with hyphen in name

[victorhooi]

Hi,

I'm attempting to download the Youtube video at:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-X0uOOHVp6s

However, youtube-dl appears to choke on the hyphen in the video ID:

> youtube-dl --write-sub -X0uOOHVp6s
Usage: youtube-dl [options] url [url...]

youtube-dl: error: no such option: -X

I've also tried quoting the video ID, and you get the same error:

> youtube-dl --write-sub "-X0uOOHVp6s"
Usage: youtube-dl [options] url [url...]

youtube-dl: error: no such option: -X

Escaping with \ also doesn't seem to work:

youtube-dl --write-sub \-X0uOOHVp6s
Usage: youtube-dl [options] url [url...]

youtube-dl: error: no such option: -X

[phihag]

This is not specific to youtube-dl, but all shell programs. Escaping cannot work since the dash is (for once) not interpreted by the shell. Instead, try adding a double dash before the arguments, as in:

youtube-dl --write-sub -- -X0uOOHVp6s