I have been working around some issues with Wget recently and after modifying the URLs, I found that it would start failing if the URL was a querystring with more than one variable. This means that you would have an & in the string.
Well, Wget sees this as an additional command so you need to delimit it somehow. Googling turned up this article that indicates either enclosing the URL in single-quotes (‘) or delimiting the ampersand character with a backslash. The comments on this post all praise this solution.
Only problem… Neither worked for me. Then I thought, perhaps this is another “oddity” of running it on the Windows port. So, I tried enclosing the URL in double quotes and voila it worked! So, let that be a lesson to you: Don’t assume every ported program from Linux runs as you’d expect when under Windows.
At Over The Top and Exhibit A Communications, I've programmed solutions for Google as well as at least one other company that was later acquired by Google.
I've been CTO of an Internet SaaS company and spent my time pretty evenly between guiding the future technical strategy of the company, architecting software solutions for my dev teams, designing and running a data center to service our clients world-wide as well as being a technical evangalist/sales engineer to our media clients large and small.
I've also been Chief Photographer of the Daily Sun/Post newspaper back when it was a 5-day a week daily newspaper.
I also spent a great many years as a beach lifeguardfor the City of San Clemente as well as Jr. Lifeguard instructor and then as it's program coordinator.
Bragging rights
Private Pilot with Instrument rating and proud husband of soon to be 25 years (and counting).
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