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In my experience once flash videos are completely loaded in Firefox, they get relocated from the cache into /tmp. So when I do
$ cd /tmp
and then execute your second command, it works like a charm.

Oh, cool. I didn’t know that and always wondered where the videos went. Took me quite a while to figure that out last night. Thanks to you now I don’t only know WHERE they go, but also WHY they go there. Cheers, mate, all the best!

I use this script to print the filename of the last played (downloaded) multimedial file:

getlastC.sh:

srcdir=”`echo $HOME/.mozilla/firefox/*.default/Cache`”
lasts=”`ls -t \”$srcdir\”/* | grep -v _CACHE_`”
#srcdir=”/tmp”
#lasts=”`ls -t \”$srcdir\”/Flash*`”
# mplay1eo1b5: Audio file with ID3 version 22.0 tag, MP3 encoding
# Apple QuickTime movie (fast start)
# ISO Media, Apple QuickTime movie

#echo “To check: $lasts”

for last in $lasts; do
#verbose “Checking: $last”
if file -b “$last” | grep “Macromedia Flash Video” >/dev/null 2>&1; then
#verbose “Detected: Macromedia Flash Video”
ext=”flv”
elif file -b “$last” | grep “Apple QuickTime movie” >/dev/null 2>&1; then
#verbose “Detected: ISO Media, Apple QuickTime movie”
ext=”qt”
else
#verbose “No multimedial content detected.”
ext=”"
fi

if [[ "$ext" != "" ]]; then
#lastbasename=${last##*/}
#verbose “$0:”
if [[ "$add_ext" != "" ]]; then
add_ext=”.$ext”
fi
echo “$last$add_ext”
exit
fi
done

And this one to copy (usage: gimmelastC.sh “Great video from youtube”).

gimmelastC.sh:

name=”$1″

last_ext=”$(getlastC.sh ext 2>/dev/null)”

ext=${last_ext##*.}
last=${last_ext%.*}
lastbasename=${last##*/}

if [[ -z "$name" ]]; then
name=”$lastbasename”
fi

if [[ -f "$last" ]]; then
echo “mv \”$last\” \”$name.$ext\”"
mv “$last” “$name.$ext”
fi

Returns the last one multimedial file, then the one before the last one etc. Cheers.