I haven't been able to download using PID for ages....

[Dave F.]

On 28/09/2012 12:44, dinkypumpkin wrote:
>
> The backslash escapes the quote character, so the value of the -o 
> parameter isn't terminated.  That means that get_iplayer never sees 
> any of the following arguments on the command line.  This means 
> get_iplayer effectively runs without arguments and thus just returns 
> the full list of available programmes.  That's just how command line 
> parsing works - it's nothing to do with get_iplayer. FWIW, since you 
> don't have any spaces in that path, you don't need to surround it with 
> quotes.

I see

> Without quotes, the trailing backslash would be OK.

Thanks again.

Dave F.