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From: "Bhikkhu Mettavihari" <draketools@gmail.com>
To: Linux Newbie <linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: download file
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 06:12:59 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2e35683f0809161742l1bac0340qca83a3ff3da6029@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5f9618380809161152x334e7282g5fde3ac2b4f2f789@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Renê and Ben

Thank you for the reply's

On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 12:22 AM, Renê <rene@grad.icmc.usp.br> wrote:
> Are you getting this error because address contains the & character,
> that it's used by shell to start proccess in background,
> you can easily download file with wget by putting double quotes in address:
>
> wget "http://switch3.castup.net/cunet/gm.asp?ai=214&ar=1050wmv&ak=TY"
>
> or use \& instead &, like this:
>
> wget http://switch3.castup.net/cunet/gm.asp?ai=214\&ar=1050wmv\&ak=TY

Thank you so much. I do get the file that wget is asking for.
But as you might know I am trying to download the video file that is
referenced to in this file
If any one of you can help with that would be great.

regards
Mettavihari
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  reply	other threads:[~2008-09-17  0:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-16 18:18 download file Bhikkhu Mettavihari
2008-09-16 18:32 ` Ben Kevan
2008-09-16 18:52   ` Renê
2008-09-17  0:42     ` Bhikkhu Mettavihari [this message]
2008-09-17  1:37       ` Renê
2008-09-19  4:07         ` Bhikkhu Mettavihari

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