Wow! :o I've just read up on backticks and command substution in Bash. That's quite a powerful little character. For the record, any command between a pair of backticks will be run first and the output used as part of the main command. A single backtick causes Bash to show a prompt and wait for a co...

This may well be a n00b problem but it took me ages to pin down where the problem was. I couldn't get the AMC script working when I added the default format expression for TV shows (copied from here ). I eventually narrowed the problem down to one character in this part of the expression t.replaceAl...