The --output argument is messed up...

[sajal]

Running

/tmp/youtube-dl http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=715qvhao_y0 -f 18 -o "/mnt/foo"

I expect the output to be stored in /mnt/foo . But the latest master stores it as filename "mnt_foo" in the current directory. Please advise. Do i need to escape the slash?

The problem started when i updated the script few hours ago. I had updated it yesterday as well, no problems then.

[FiloSottile]

Ugh. @phihag people were using -o to specify folders, and now we escape also user-supplied /s. I think this was accepted, valid and widespread behavior!

We should rollback to escaping every info_dict field.

[phihag]

Sorry, that was indeed a fault on my part. It's fixed now, and it has been fixed in youtube-dl 2012.11.28.