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Re: wget behavior

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From	MarkA <someone@somewhere.invalid>
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Subject	Re: wget behavior
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On Mon, 13 Feb 2017 23:37:26 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote:

> On 2017-02-13 21:57, MarkA wrote:
>> On Mon, 13 Feb 2017 20:16:02 +0000, Richard Kettlewell wrote:
> 
> 
>>> Told you so.
>> 
>> Indeed you did.  I am humbled.
>> 
>> So how does an unquoted "&" affect the transfer?  I am using bash (of
>> course), and the transfer starts and runs for a while before stopping. 
>> I have subsequently discovered that it will restart on its own after
>> several minutes.
> 
> Maybe, but it is not downloading the file you wanted...  (incomplete
> URL, remember), so who cares?

You would think, but it is a software bundle, that seems to unpack and 
run correctly.  I shall try downloading both versions, with and without 
the quotes, to see if the resulting downloaded .zip files are identical.  
Stay tuned, if interested.

-- 
MarkA

In politics and in life, ignorance is not a virtue.
-- Barack Obama

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wget behavior Mark A <deeptht69@gmail.com> - 2017-02-12 14:52 -0800
  Re: wget behavior Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2017-02-12 23:22 +0000
    Re: wget behavior Mark A <deeptht69@gmail.com> - 2017-02-12 15:45 -0800
      Re: wget behavior Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2017-02-12 23:51 +0000
        Re: wget behavior MarkA <someone@somewhere.invalid> - 2017-02-12 23:59 +0000
          Re: wget behavior "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@invalid.es> - 2017-02-13 02:09 +0100
          Re: wget behavior Allodoxaphobia <knock_yourself_out@example.net> - 2017-02-13 01:41 +0000
            Re: wget behavior "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@invalid.es> - 2017-02-13 02:46 +0100
          Re: wget behavior Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2017-02-13 09:18 +0000
          Re: wget behavior William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2017-02-13 11:32 +0000
            Re: wget behavior MarkA <someone@somewhere.invalid> - 2017-02-13 20:02 +0000
              Re: wget behavior MarkA <someone@somewhere.invalid> - 2017-02-13 20:08 +0000
                Re: wget behavior MarkA <someone@somewhere.invalid> - 2017-02-13 20:42 +0000
              Re: wget behavior Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2017-02-13 20:16 +0000
                Re: wget behavior MarkA <someone@somewhere.invalid> - 2017-02-13 20:57 +0000
                Re: wget behavior Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2017-02-13 21:31 +0000
                Re: wget behavior MarkA <someone@somewhere.invalid> - 2017-02-13 21:51 +0000
                Re: wget behavior Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hpe.com> - 2017-02-13 21:58 +0000
                Re: wget behavior MarkA <someone@somewhere.invalid> - 2017-02-14 21:46 +0000
                Re: wget behavior "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@invalid.es> - 2017-02-13 23:37 +0100
                Re: wget behavior MarkA <someone@somewhere.invalid> - 2017-02-14 21:50 +0000

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