Path: csiph.com!1.us.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!1.eu.feeder.erje.net!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!border2.nntp.ams1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!peer03.ams1!peer.ams1.xlned.com!news.xlned.com!peer03.am4!peer.am4.highwinds-media.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: 13 Feb 2017 20:02:00 GMT Organization: NewsGuy - Unlimited Usenet $23.95 Lines: 74 Message-ID: References: <874lzzc7v0.fsf@LkoBDZeT.terraraq.uk> <2ff86561-47d6-4f3a-9436-d3c7c6ad864b@googlegroups.com> <87poinarxi.fsf@LkoBDZeT.terraraq.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: p59381a8a91adaed01e6115c5ec01299202cfaadfa24af354.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: 3685 X-Received-Body-CRC: 4188296916 Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.networking:3962 On Mon, 13 Feb 2017 11:32:59 +0000, William Unruh wrote: > On 2017-02-12, MarkA wrote: >> On Sun, 12 Feb 2017 23:51:53 +0000, Richard Kettlewell wrote: >> >>> Mark A writes: >>>> Richard Kettlewell wrote: >>>>> Mark A writes: >>>>>> I'm using wget to download some large files from a download server, >>>>>> after several failed attempts to use Firefox's download function. >>>>>> I can use the Firefox download function to get the URL of the >>>>>> source, then paste that into wget, running in a Gnome terminal >>>>>> window. wget starts and shows its progress bar across the bottom >>>>>> of the window. If I press "Enter", the progress bar freezes, moves >>>>>> up one line, and is immediately replaced by a new one that >>>>>> continues to update. >>>>>> >>>>>> After a few minutes, the progress bar stops updating. If I press >>>>>> "Enter", I get the command prompt. "jobs" shows wget still >>>>>> running, >>>>>> now in the background. >>>>> >>>>> I expect that there’s an ‘&’ in the URL and you didn’t quote it. >>>> >>>> No, no such characters in the URL. >>> >>> Well, wget doesn’t generally put itself into the background for no >>> reason. >> >> Hence my puzzlement. Yet, there it is, with a big fat " &" after it, >> when I type "jobs". >> >> >>>> A few '%'s, though. Besides, a malformed URL would cause it to fail >>>> immediately. >>> >>> ‘&’ doesn’t make the URL malformed. >> >> It does if it causes the software to misinterpret the URL. >> >> >> > Why not show us EXACTLY what command you typed. > > > Here it is (without line wraps in gnome terminal): wget https://storage-ec2-462.sharefile.com/download.ashx? dt=dtee4b0bcf14d24d04a797f03216a4d935&h=H% 2bHB7RL13PQ9UWYn0spJbdXPG4Hp2mRtj1bIC4xfrG4%3d Here is the command and response copied from the terminal: toor@HPlaptop2013:/tmp$ wget https://storage-ec2-462.sharefile.com/ download.ashx?dt=dtee4b0bcf14d24d04a797f03216a4d935&h=H% 2bHB7RL13PQ9UWYn0spJbdXPG4Hp2mRtj1bIC4xfrG4%3d [1] 3755 toor@HPlaptop2013:/tmp$ --2017-02-13 14:57:54-- https://storage- ec2-462.sharefile.com/download.ashx?dt=dtee4b0bcf14d24d04a797f03216a4d935 Resolving storage-ec2-462.sharefile.com (storage-ec2-462.sharefile.com)... 34.197.226.34 Connecting to storage-ec2-462.sharefile.com (storage- ec2-462.sharefile.com)|34.197.226.34|:443... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 6313479914 (5.9G) [application/zip] Saving to: ‘download.ashx?dt=dtee4b0bcf14d24d04a797f03216a4d935’ -- MarkA You can safely assume that you have created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do. -- Anne Lamott