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Is it possible to have a command run with passed in substitutions, based on an existing download.
e.g.

Code:
perl get_iplayer --download_suppressing_option(s) --pid=12345678 --command=mywrapper <pid> <dir> <fileprefix>

thanks in advance.

No. The value of

Code:
--command

is only executed when something is downloaded since the expanded values of some substitution parameters like

Code:
<dir>

and

Code:
<filename>

won't exist otherwise. If you use

Code:
--test

there is no download performed, so the command is not executed. You'll have to test your wrapper script separately.

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