Comments on: Wget and URLs with Ampersands /2005/04/12/wget-and-urls-with-ampersands/ Tips and tricks to get technology to work for you, by Michael Boyd Clark Sat, 20 Feb 2016 14:14:51 +0000 hourly 1 By: Alex /2005/04/12/wget-and-urls-with-ampersands/comment-page-1/#comment-33065 Sun, 09 Sep 2012 02:12:44 +0000 http://www.planetmike.com/journal/?p=171#comment-33065 Here’s another technique:

URL=”http://example.com/some/query?ENTRY=something&this&that”; wget “$URL”

]]> By: paritosh /2005/04/12/wget-and-urls-with-ampersands/comment-page-1/#comment-20330 Sat, 17 Sep 2011 16:57:48 +0000 http://www.planetmike.com/journal/?p=171#comment-20330 i know this is very old threads but …
Thanks.
Just recently moved to perl/bash for some quick cooking and spent almost 2 hours looking wget downloading 2 files when using & char.
you saved the day 🙂
By the way \& didn’t worked for me

]]> By: Harry Klitza /2005/04/12/wget-and-urls-with-ampersands/comment-page-1/#comment-18565 Fri, 10 Jun 2011 05:45:42 +0000 http://www.planetmike.com/journal/?p=171#comment-18565 Spot on! This is exactly what I was looking for. The backslash before the ampersand works a treat.

Harry

]]> By: Deborah Simons /2005/04/12/wget-and-urls-with-ampersands/comment-page-1/#comment-18530 Fri, 03 Jun 2011 15:33:02 +0000 http://www.planetmike.com/journal/?p=171#comment-18530 Very useful post! Charles, you got it right with the backslash before the ampersand. Thanks for sharing the info.

]]> By: Charles Hope /2005/04/12/wget-and-urls-with-ampersands/comment-page-1/#comment-18419 Thu, 26 May 2011 17:32:32 +0000 http://www.planetmike.com/journal/?p=171#comment-18419 You can also use a backslash before the ampersand. This is useful if the URL contains a variable that you’d need substituted, such as

http://server/“$n”.company.com/control?active=true\&password=password

]]> By: Mark /2005/04/12/wget-and-urls-with-ampersands/comment-page-1/#comment-17922 Tue, 19 Apr 2011 14:58:23 +0000 http://www.planetmike.com/journal/?p=171#comment-17922 Informative post, i made sure that I followed suggestions about encoding or double quotes and it really worked well for me. Thanks 😀

]]> By: Jesse Dyer /2005/04/12/wget-and-urls-with-ampersands/comment-page-1/#comment-17550 Tue, 22 Mar 2011 14:13:59 +0000 http://www.planetmike.com/journal/?p=171#comment-17550 Granted this is an old, but for those who come here via Google; the reason that this isn’t mentioned in the manual is that this is not a wget problem; this is a bash problem. Bash interprets ampersands as a control operator. Everything before, and separately after the ampersand gets passed as a single standalone command.

]]> By: Mark /2005/04/12/wget-and-urls-with-ampersands/comment-page-1/#comment-16015 Fri, 17 Oct 2008 13:56:19 +0000 http://www.planetmike.com/journal/?p=171#comment-16015 Oh my god thank you so much!!! I Spent AGES trying to get this to work (using encoding and double quotes etc) and I can’t believe I didn’t try single quotes, such an obvious solution, why isn’t it mentioned in the manual?

]]> By: Mark /2005/04/12/wget-and-urls-with-ampersands/comment-page-1/#comment-14691 Tue, 19 Feb 2008 05:28:31 +0000 http://www.planetmike.com/journal/?p=171#comment-14691 I agree, this was not clearly mentioned in the manual – that I saw anyway and I followed some other poor suggestions about encoding or double quotes before reading this.

Single quotes and all is good.

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