Are you getting this error because address contains the & character, that it's used by shell to start proccess in background, you can easily download file with wget by putting double quotes in address: wget "http://switch3.castup.net/cunet/gm.asp?ai=214&ar=1050wmv&ak=TY"; or use \& instead &, like this: wget http://switch3.castup.net/cunet/gm.asp?ai=214\&ar=1050wmv\&ak=TY Cheers; Renê On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 3:32 PM, Ben Kevan <ben.kevan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tuesday 16 September 2008 11:18:36 am you wrote: > > hi, > > > > I am on linux > > > > How do I download a file from this site ? > > > > http://switch3.castup.net/cunet/gm.asp?ai=214&ar=1050wmv&ak=TY > > > > when I do > > $wget http://switch3.castup.net/cunet/gm.asp?ai=214&ar=1050wmv&ak=TY > > then I get a small file by the name of "gm.asp?ai=214" with content like > > this. > > > > <asx version="3.0"> > > <!-- GMX --> > > <title>CastUP: Unknown Error</title> > > <entry> > > <title>Error: Unknown Error</title> > > <author></author> > > <ref href="http://"; /> > > </entry> > > </asx> > > > > > > Regards > > Mettavihari > > -- > > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in > > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs > > The reason you are getting that is because that's the file you're telling it > to download. > > wget is working perfectly. > > Are you trying to have wget figure out where the asp file is pointing you to > download? > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
