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Re: lynx-dev Long URL on command line
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pg |
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Re: lynx-dev Long URL on command line |
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Mon, 27 Nov 2000 19:54:44 -0700 (MST) |
In a recent note, Mike Castle said:
> Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:45:09 -0600
>
> On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 05:59:54PM -0800, Sam Hobson wrote:
> > pairs (e.g. www.foobar.com/cgi-bin/goo?key1=value1&key2=value2....etc).
> >
> > Problem: It seems Lynx is clipping the URL, perhaps at the first "&".
>
> Are you sure it's lynx clipping and not your shell? The "&" is the usual
> shell character to send the current command into the background. Be sure
> to wrap single quotes around the URL:
>
> lynx -dump -nolist 'http://www.blah.com/cgi-bin/goo?key1=val1&key2=val2'
>
My best guess, too. But if Sam has the URL in an environment variable
as he implied, that needs to be put in double quotes:
lynx -dump -nolist "$url"
-- gil
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