wget inability of downloading certain files

[Tony Nelson]

At 5:24 PM +0000 11/3/05, 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.
>
>$ wget -Otempfile http://yah.warmcat.com/index.php?&param=1
 ...
>$ wget -Otempfile "http://yah.warmcat.com/index.php?&param=1"

How about:

$ echo http://yah.warmcat.com/index.php?&param=1
$ echo "http://yah.warmcat.com/index.php?&param=1"
$ echo "http://yah.warmcat.com/index.php?\&param=1"

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