Hello,

I have noticed that the BBC Four programme Timeshift has repeated episodes. For example, this morning I find that GiP has downloaded another copy of Series 15, Episode 1 'The Trains that Time Forgot'.

As Timeshift is now up to Series 17, is there any way to exclude any series for Timeshift below Series 17? I was wondering if it would be possible to write something along the lines of 'Timeshift --exclude Series < 17'.

Would that work? If not, are there any other suggestions?

get-iplayer uses regular expression string matches to search the programme listings.
It's not convenient to use regular expressions to match multi-digit numbers (although it can be done, e.g. see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2997...r-than-954)

But you could achieve something simpler using just text searches, e.g.:
For just series 17:

or for series 17, 18 or 19:

The problem with explicitly searching for Series 17 though is that the series will be updated. I'll give the regex stuff a try though so thanks for the pointers to that.

Regex is definitely not my strong point so it might take some time.

D'oh! If only I'd read ALL your reply I would have sen that you'd covered the expansion of the Series beyond 17.

I'll take more time in future!