Path: csiph.com!feeder.erje.net!2.us.feeder.erje.net!news.glorb.com!peer03.iad!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!spln!extra.newsguy.com!newsp.newsguy.com!news4 From: MarkA Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.networking Subject: Re: wget behavior Date: 14 Feb 2017 21:50:36 GMT Organization: NewsGuy - Unlimited Usenet $23.95 Lines: 28 Message-ID: References: <874lzzc7v0.fsf@LkoBDZeT.terraraq.uk> <2ff86561-47d6-4f3a-9436-d3c7c6ad864b@googlegroups.com> <87poinarxi.fsf@LkoBDZeT.terraraq.uk> <87wpctaltp.fsf@LkoBDZeT.terraraq.uk> <62p9nd-56p.ln1@minas-tirith.valinor> NNTP-Posting-Host: pc0ca79d51bba5f9e240f7f613186e178f6fcefe9c81ef0d8.newsdawg.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Pan/0.139 (Sexual Chocolate; GIT bf56508 git://git.gnome.org/pan2) X-Received-Bytes: 1997 X-Received-Body-CRC: 3162655893 Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.networking:3974 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