can I populate the download_history without actualy downloading

[Dave Widgery]

Hi thanks for the suggestion, but I am running windows not linux, i
will give it a try but not sure that it will work.

Dave

On 6 September 2016 at 17:10, David Walters <david at jellybaby.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 3:45 PM, Dave Widgery <dave.widgery at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> get_iplayer creates the entries in the file each time it has a
>> sucsessful downloads a file,
>
>
> The pid and 17 pipes seems to do the trick:
>
> :~$ tail -1 .get_iplayer/download_history
> b07v35g6|||||||||||||||||
> :~$ ./get_iplayer/get_iplayer --pid b07v35g6
> ...
> INFO:  -  (b07v35g6) Already in history
> (/home/david/.get_iplayer/download_history) - use --force to override