[options] Mention comments support in --batch-file

7 years ago · 5d60b99717
1 changed files with 2 additions and 1 deletions
--- a/youtube_dl/options.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/options.py
@ -676,7 +676,8 @@ def parseOpts(overrideArguments=None):
    filesystem.add_option(
        '-a', '--batch-file',
        dest='batchfile', metavar='FILE',
-        help='File containing URLs to download (\'-\' for stdin)')
+        help="File containing URLs to download ('-' for stdin), one URL per line. "
+             "Lines starting with '#', ';' or ']' are considered as comments and ignored.")
    filesystem.add_option(
        '--id', default=False,
        action='store_true', dest='useid', help='Use only video ID in file name')