Fish shell doesn't work (tested with OSX 10.9)

[ghost]

Using OSX 10.9.5, and the Fish shell, version 2.1.1-1204-gb5d9e36, youtube-dl didn't work. I tried the command youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL91045D0297689C75, and the command youtube-dl --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL91045D0297689C75.

Both commands failed identically, with this error:

No matches for wildcard 'https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL91045D0297689C75'.
fish: youtube-dl  https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL91045D0297689C75
                  ^
Usage: youtube-dl [OPTIONS] URL [URL...]

youtube-dl: error: You must provide at least one URL.
Type youtube-dl --help to see a list of all options.

Using the 'sh' shell worked perfectly, however.

[yan12125]

For all shells, including Fish, you need to enclose URLs with '?' or '&' in single or double quotes.

[ghost]

Great! Thanks for the information, I couldn't find it in the man page. The sh shell worked just fine without using quotations, which is why I thought it was a fish shell error.

[yan12125]

Simply because on Mac sh does not support the special character '?'. Anyway, it's a good practice to enclose URLs in quotes.

[jaimeMF]

That's because in both shells ? is used for filename expansion, but if no filenames matches (like for https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL91045D0297689C75) fish just outputs the error while bash returns the original string. I use the fish shell and I'm used to quoting every url, you'll also get used. See fish-shell/fish-shell#1965 and fish-shell/fish-shell#967 if you want to know more about fish behaviour.