Hi Renê and Ben Thank you for the reply's On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 12:22 AM, Renê <rene@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 Thank you so much. I do get the file that wget is asking for. But as you might know I am trying to download the video file that is referenced to in this file If any one of you can help with that would be great. 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
