'fileprefix' filename templates are having characters elided

[Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer]

Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer <jn.ml.gti.91 at wingsandbeaks.org.uk> wrote:

> With 2.84 etc this worked.  With 2.90 (I've not used any of the
> intermediate versions), specifying for example:
>
>--fatfilename --whitespace --file-prefix "$GRAB...

>produces a final file name like:
>
>$GRAB...

Oops.  It didn't; the leading "$" was gone as well; the new name really
started "GRAB".  I wasn't paying complete attention when I wrote the last
email and just put the missing "$" in by hand thinking I'd c&p the filename
carelessly.  What an idiot!

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