wget is not working with special parameter

Asked Jul 19 '22 at 14:30

Active Jul 19 '22 at 14:31

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I am trying to download a file from this link with wget.

https://sfirmware.com/downloads/downloader.php?fileid=257457&hash=458cd40aa7824c3d25fe096c0b01d4b7

I am aware that & is a special character in shell environment.

So far i've tried double quote,single quote ,putting %26 replacing '&' (as per some suggestion) but the solution doesn't seem to work with this error-

Hash not exist in db!<a href="https://sfirmware.com/">Back to Home Page</a>

It seems the hash number from the link is ignoring while requesting.

How do I modify the code to download this file with wget?

edited Jul 19 '22 at 14:31

asked Jul 19 '22 at 14:30

moshiulRabbi

Does this answer your question? [Wget ends at ampersand(&) and skips eveything after that](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31400021/wget-ends-at-ampersand-and-skips-eveything-after-that) – Benjamin W. Jul 19 '22 at 14:36
Or closely related: [How to include an '&' character in a bash curl statement](https://stackoverflow.com/q/13339469/3266847) – Benjamin W. Jul 19 '22 at 14:37
No. As I already mentioned. I tried those before asking questioning here – moshiulRabbi Jul 19 '22 at 16:23
Maybe the file is indeed missing? – Benjamin W. Jul 19 '22 at 16:26
No. You can go to the link with browser and the file should be downloading – moshiulRabbi Jul 19 '22 at 16:34
I get a message that the file doesn't exist when I do that. – Benjamin W. Jul 19 '22 at 18:50
Link is updating after a while. Is there any solution to wget this file? link is valid – moshiulRabbi Jul 20 '22 at 06:41
I can't tell you anything other than single quoting the whole URL works for me. – Benjamin W. Jul 20 '22 at 14:05

wget is not working with special parameter

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