Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3996 mails)

[Martin Mielke <martin.mielke@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Felix Miata wrote:

> Jim Sabatke wrote:
>
>  
>
> > > > How do I access a link with wget written in the following form?
> > > >        
>
>  
>
> > > > http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/abiword/abiword-2.0.11.tar.gz?use_mirror=unc
> > > >        
>
>  
>
> > I've tried every option in man and in the online manual.
> >    
>
> I typically find it necessary to put quotes around a URL that contains a
> "?".
>  


You need to escape the ? using a \ because it's an special character,
like this:


http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/abiword/abiword-2.0.11.tar.gz\?use_mirror=unc


Or try the double-quotes proposed by Felix.

HTH,
Martin


--
Martin Mielke			
Senior UNIX SysAdmin		martin.mielke@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
THALES Information Systems	http://www.thales-is.com/
Tel.: (+34) 91 556 92 62	TimeZone: GMT+1 :-)