+### Video URL contains an ampersand and I'm getting some strange output `[1] 2839` or `'v' is not recognized as an internal or external command` ###
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+That's actually the output from your shell. Since ampersand is one of the special shell characters it's interpreted by shell preventing you from passing the whole URL to youtube-dl. To disable your shell from interpreting the ampersands (or any other special characters) you have to either put the whole URL in quotes or escape them with a backslash (which approach will work depends on your shell).
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+For example if your URL is https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=48&v=e2CXaJv0cMw you should end up with following command:
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+```youtube-dl 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=48&v=e2CXaJv0cMw'```
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+or
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+```youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=48\&v=e2CXaJv0cMw```
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+For Windows you have to use the double quotes:
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+```youtube-dl "https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=48&v=e2CXaJv0cMw"```
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