linux version unexpected behaviour - what do I need to change?

[Chris Walker]

On Sat, 1 Nov 2025 08:41:21 +0000
"fred.d" <fred.d at timelords.org.uk> wrote:

> So, recently was on holiday and as I am mid change to linux across
> the board I took a mint laptop with me.
> 
> Downloaded a few things that we wanted to watch and listen to while
> away using get_iplayer but a couple of things occurred.
> 
> 1) Downloaded file names contained a lot of spurious underscores and 
> hyphens (not plain whitespace) and had the PID embedded at the end of 
> the filename.
>   It's years since I set up gip on Windows at home so I've forgotten 
> most of what I learned but I suspect that I don't see these on the 
> desktop because I have a fileprefix command in the home options file.
> Is the standard o/p to embed the pid and split with underscore?
> 
> 2) I can't for the life of me get the outputtv and outputradio
> strings correct in the linux options file. My limited knowledge of
> shell substitution I suspect.
> 
> I want files to go in "[HOME]   /Downloads/ip/tv" and a radio
> directory of the same parentage.

Try this with prefs-add 'outputtv = /home/<uid>/Downloads/ip/tv' (minus
the quotes and with your userid in place of <uid>).

I have 'whitespace = 1' in my options file for your spurious characters.

> what am I missing here to pass a relative directory name for home
> into get_iplayer from the options file?

An equals sign perhaps?

As for fileprefix, couldn't you take a look at the Windows options file
and see what you have there and translate that into your linux options
file? That will be in /home/<uid>/.getiplayer/options

My fileprefix looks like this 'fileprefix = <episodeshort> - <sesort>'

You also need to specify subdir options. My prefs-show command shows
this :-
subdir 1
subdirformat = <nameshort>/<series>

Hope that helps.