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Hidden file created due to leading dots in video title #4250

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ivan opened this issue Nov 20, 2014 · 1 comment
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Hidden file created due to leading dots in video title #4250

ivan opened this issue Nov 20, 2014 · 1 comment

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@ivan ivan commented Nov 20, 2014 

# p3 -m youtube_dl "zQaBiTP2Kp4"
[youtube] Confirming age
[youtube] zQaBiTP2Kp4: Downloading webpage
[youtube] zQaBiTP2Kp4: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] zQaBiTP2Kp4: Extracting video information
[youtube] zQaBiTP2Kp4: Downloading DASH manifest
[download] Destination: ...and an Out Take (Shinzen Young, meditation teacher)-zQaBiTP2Kp4.mp4
[download] 100% of 8.96MiB in 00:06

The video title starts with a ".", but leading dots should probably be stripped to avoid creating hidden files. (I discovered this when git annex failed to add this file, but I guess more commonly you'll see * fail to match it.)
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@ivan ivan commented Nov 20, 2014

Oops, duplicate of #2865
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