html - Wget recognizes some part of my URL address as a syntax error

Question

I am quite new with wget and I have done my research on Google but I found no clue.

I need to save a single HTML file of a webpage:

wget yahoo.com -O test.html

and it works, but, when I try to be more specific:

wget http://search.yahoo.com/404handler?src=search&p=food+delicious -O test.html

here comes the problem, wget recognizes &p=food+delicious as a syntax, it says: 'p' is not recognized as an internal or external command

How can I solve this problem? I really appreciate your suggestions.

Answer 1

The & has a special meaning in the shell. Escape it with or put the url in quotes to avoid this problem.

wget http://search.yahoo.com/404handler?src=search&p=food+delicious -O test.html

or

wget "http://search.yahoo.com/404handler?src=search&p=food+delicious" -O test.html

In many Unix shells, putting an & after a command causes it to be executed in the background.