just put up ' in the url curl -L -O 'http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/getfile?taskID=3192896&name=BackupPC-3.2.1-1.fc14.src.rpm' The '&' symbol causes problems :) -- Aditya Patawari http://blog.adityapatawari.com/ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Adimania India