YES, actually downloading an iplayer video file now, it will be going to home/user/MyDocs/.which is outside my 2GB partition but what if I exit out of xTerminal and download another file later? is it just iplayer URL again or must I type in that echo command line before hand?

thanks so much all. Sorry Jan about calling your simplified instructions rubbish but I still stand by what I said HOWEVER your recent edits have been good but please may I suggest you make clear that the 4 commands be executed one at a time? To prevent idiots like me trying to run all commands at once. You grouped 3 commands together which was why I thought they must be executed together in one go.