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authorPhilipp Hagemeister <phihag@phihag.de>2016-07-07 12:12:21 +0200
committerPhilipp Hagemeister <phihag@phihag.de>2016-07-07 12:12:21 +0200
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document comments in configuration file (fixes #10024)
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@@ -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`.