wget inability of downloading certain files

Andy Green andy at warmcat.com
Thu Nov 3 17:42:26 UTC 2005


tlc wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 17:24 +0000, Andy Green wrote:
> 
>>Yes.. he can easily have the same wrong idea that you do about bash
>>and
>>the need for quoting, thus causing unexpected behaviour.
> 
> whatever dude, I am telling you I use wget all the time with out the ""
> for & and I get the BEHAVIOR I expect, and you don't need to be

If you're using bash, without the quotes it will eat your &arguments
before passing them to wget.  tcpdump it yourself if you don't believe
my dumps.

> insulting with your obnoxious snide comments. God I hate Brits.

That's okay.  I love Americans enough for both of us.

-Andy
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