commit 571808a7aa50fbc14c7e9db5569167bd19beac9d
parent dfe5fa49aed02cf36ba9f743b11b0903554b5e56
Author: Philipp Hagemeister <phihag@phihag.de>
Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2016 12:12:21 +0200
document comments in configuration file (fixes #10024)
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1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
@@ -432,6 +432,7 @@ For example, with the following configuration file youtube-dl will always extrac
--no-mtime
--proxy 127.0.0.1:3128
-o ~/Movies/%(title)s.%(ext)s
+# Lines starting with # are comments
```
Note that options in configuration file are just the same options aka switches used in regular command line calls thus there **must be no whitespace** after `-` or `--`, e.g. `-o` or `--proxy` but not `- o` or `-- proxy`.