On Sun, 10 Jul 2011 17:57:26 +0300 (IDT), Geoff Shang wrote: > On Sun, 10 Jul 2011, Tamara Temple wrote: > >> On Jul 10, 2011, at 5:38 AM, Negin Nickparsa wrote: >> >>> I want to make a batch file and then exec it in php >>> I have a problem in batch file >>> wget have been installed in Yast I want to download a RuleFile from >>> snort.org >>> >>> I used this on shell: >>> >>> $ wget >>> http://www.snort.org/reg-rules/snortrules-snapshot-2900.tar.gz/c0e9480af637e53c7aae823a40a131edc1343db5\-O >>> snortrules-snapshot-2900.tar.gz >>> >>> that string is an oinkcode from the site >>> >>> this commandline has error and I don't know why >> >> What is the error? >> >> This: "b5\-O" at the end of URL looks suspicious. > > That's the problem. The "\" should be a space. As a Good Practice, a 'raw' URL in a wget command should always be enclosed in 'single quotes'. For URLs with internal, variable substitutions ... well ... you just have to roll up your sleeves a little further. Jonesy -- Marvin L Jones | jonz | W3DHJ | linux 38.24N 104.55W | @ config.com | Jonesy | OS/2 * Killfiling google & XXXXbanter.com: jonz.net/ng.htm -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php