Don't sanitize filename on Unix when --no-windows-filenames (#9591)

Closes #4547, Closes #8464 Authored by: pukkandan
2025-11-10 02:50:46 +00:00 · 2024-12-23 15:57:25 +05:30
parent d298693b1b
commit 6fc85f617a
4 changed files with 28 additions and 12 deletions
--- a/yt_dlp/options.py
+++ b/yt_dlp/options.py
@@ -1370,12 +1370,12 @@ def create_parser():
        help='Allow Unicode characters, "&" and spaces in filenames (default)')
    filesystem.add_option(
        '--windows-filenames',
-        action='store_true', dest='windowsfilenames', default=False,
+        action='store_true', dest='windowsfilenames', default=None,
        help='Force filenames to be Windows-compatible')
    filesystem.add_option(
        '--no-windows-filenames',
        action='store_false', dest='windowsfilenames',
-        help='Make filenames Windows-compatible only if using Windows (default)')
+        help='Sanitize filenames only minimally')
    filesystem.add_option(
        '--trim-filenames', '--trim-file-names', metavar='LENGTH',
        dest='trim_file_name', default=0, type=int,