Unable to refresh

[Mark Carroll]

On 24 Mar 2018, RS wrote:

> I can see that in some special cases leaving out the quotes will give 
> wrong results.  I only wanted a crude indication of how long it had been 
> since refreshing the cache had been working, but that is no excuse for 
> getting it wrong.
>
> I clearly still need to think it through further.  I would have expected
> get_iplayer * --since 110
> to match 67 programmes, but it matches 0.
(snip)

You can type 'echo' first to see what get_iplayer is actually getting:

$ ls 
another  thing
$ echo get_iplayer * --since 110
get_iplayer another thing --since 110

bash won't expand unmatched wildcards:

$ echo a* b*
another b*

-- Mark