01-10-2017
Curly brackets converted to unicode in script
Is this a bash or wget issue?
GNU bash, version 4.4.0(1)-release (x86_64-slackware-linux-gnu)
GNU Wget 1.18 built on linux-gnu.
If I run wget -O file localhost/{2..4} from the command line, it will download pages 2 to 4 and concatenate them to file - which is what I want.
If I put this in a script, it works.
But if I add variables to the script wget -O file localhost/{$1..$2} and run script 2 4 wget tries to download localhost/%7B2..4%7D
I've worked around this, but it would be better to know why/how the curly brackets are being converted to their unicode equivalents so I can get it to work as required in the first place.
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NAME
dpkg-www - program to remotely open a WWW Debian package browser
SYNOPSIS
dpkg-www [-s|--stdout] [-h|--host host] [query]
DESCRIPTION
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dpkg-www bash
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SEE ALSO
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AUTHOR
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September 1, 2004 DPKG-WWW(1)