At 5:24 PM +0000 11/3/05, Andy Green wrote: ... >Yes.. he can easily have the same wrong idea that you do about bash and >the need for quoting, thus causing unexpected behaviour. > >$ wget -Otempfile http://yah.warmcat.com/index.php?¶m=1 ... >$ wget -Otempfile "http://yah.warmcat.com/index.php?¶m=1" How about: $ echo http://yah.warmcat.com/index.php?¶m=1 $ echo "http://yah.warmcat.com/index.php?¶m=1" $ echo "http://yah.warmcat.com/index.php?\¶m=1" ;) Though you can lead a horse to water, you cannot make it drink. ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>