Thread: Need advanced shell scripting help
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GameboyRMH is offline GameboyRMH
2010-12-03 , 12:19
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Originally Posted by lma View Post
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?
This is basically the problem I'm having:

http://www.planetmike.com/2005/04/12/wget-and-urls-with-ampersands/

I'll give wget -i a try, but putting the URLs in a file would be highly impractical...this script iterates through a list of URLs using cut.
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