Re: lynx-dev Long URL on command line

[Mike Castle]

On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 05:59:54PM -0800, Sam Hobson wrote:
> pairs (e.g. www.foobar.com/cgi-bin/goo?key1=value1&key2=value2....etc).
> 
> Problem:  It seems Lynx is clipping the URL, perhaps at the first "&".

Are you sure it's lynx clipping and not your shell?  The "&" is the usual
shell character to send the current command into the background.  Be sure
to wrap single quotes around the URL:

lynx -dump -nolist 'http://www.blah.com/cgi-bin/goo?key1=val1&key2=val2'

mrc
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