Thread: Need advanced shell scripting help
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2010-12-03 , 08:03
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Originally Posted by GameboyRMH View Post
It is absolutely vital that I use single quotes here, just like this, or the operation won't work (long story about wget, but trust me there's no other way)
That sounds like an interesting story in itself, please elaborate :-)

I assume the URL in question contains "interesting" characters which cause some breakage when used with double quotes on the command line. Have you tried using wget -i instead?