From a7440261c52d6518a429210aaae598095112c61b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Philipp Hagemeister <phihag@phihag.de>
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2015 19:07:17 +0100
Subject: [utils] Streap leading dots

Fixes #2865, closes #5087
---
 youtube_dl/utils.py | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

(limited to 'youtube_dl')

diff --git a/youtube_dl/utils.py b/youtube_dl/utils.py
index d4938ec36..1d3401bc2 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/utils.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/utils.py
@@ -305,6 +305,7 @@ def sanitize_filename(s, restricted=False, is_id=False):
             result = result[2:]
         if result.startswith('-'):
             result = '_' + result[len('-'):]
+        result = result.lstrip('.')
         if not result:
             result = '_'
     return result
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