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Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> On Jun 20, 2008, at 4:47 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> I get the following error:
>>
>> --17:42:58--  http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/search/web?v=1.0
>>            => [EMAIL PROTECTED]'
>> Resolving ajax.googleapis.com... 66.102.1.100, 66.102.1.101,
>> 66.102.1.102, ...
>> Connecting to ajax.googleapis.com|66.102.1.100|:80... connected.
>> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
>> Length: 81 [text/javascript]
>>
>>     0K                                                       100%   
>> 6.79 MB/s
>>
>> 17:42:58 (6.79 MB/s) - [EMAIL PROTECTED]' saved [81/81]
>>
>> 'q' is not recognized as an external or internal command, operable
>> program or batch file.
> 
> 
> Your shell appears to think the "&" in the URL has not been escaped. I'm
> not sure why it thinks that, since you've enclosed it in single quotes,
> which should be sufficient. And copying and pasting your command to my
> terminal (replacing "curl" with "wget") works for me:

The fact that Wget transcodes '?' to '@' is a pretty good sign the user
is running Windows, so I'm going to assume that. In that case, AIUI,
single-quotes don't work the same as they would in a Unix shell: the
user needs to use double-quotes instead.

- --
Micah J. Cowan
Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer,
and GNU Wget Project Maintainer.
http://micah.cowan.name/
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