On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 02:24:08PM -0700, Fred wrote:
One option that might have helped with a problem that was posted in about
the last week is the --restrict-filenames option which may prevent the need
to quote the URL.
No, that won't prevent the need to quote a URL containing & characters.
Those are special to the shell and will cause the command to be split
at that point, becoming two separate commands, one of which will be
executed in the background.
wooledg:~$ echo a&b
[1] 9208
a
bash: b: command not found
[1]+ Done echo a
wooledg:~$