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Re: lynx-dev Long URL on command line
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Klaus Weide |
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Re: lynx-dev Long URL on command line |
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Tue, 28 Nov 2000 13:11:40 -0600 (CST) |
On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, Lloyd Rasmussen wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Nov 2000 17:59:54 -0800, Sam Hobson wrote:
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> >Context: I want to send a long URL on the command line and have the results
> >dump-ed. I'm currently using "/usr/local/bin/lynx -dump -nolist $url",
> If the double quotes don't take care of it, try it with each of the
> ampersands replaced with its name &
No, that would be the right advice for embedding a URL in HTML (as an HREF
attribute value or otherwise), but not for the command line.
Lynx would be wrong if it interpreted & that is part of a URL passed
on the command line as &.
Klaus
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