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Re: LYNX-DEV command line invocation & searchpart.
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Greg Marr |
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Re: LYNX-DEV command line invocation & searchpart. |
Date: |
Fri, 15 Aug 1997 07:53:56 -0400 |
>When I use a start URL with a '?' in it, I escape it with a backslash,
>thus - http://host/path\?name=value - and it seems to work.
>
>This is on Digital Unix 4.0, using a tcsh shell, lynx version
>2.7.1ac-0.38 currently (but it's been that way since 2.6 or whenever
>it was I started compiling my own).
>
>If anyone knows how to avoid the necessity, I'd also be happy
>to learn, since I keep forgetting to escape the '?' and then waste
>time cursing the fates until I remember. Happened just yesterday, in
>fact.
You can just remember to always enclose the URL in single quotes.
Also check into the noglob setting of tcsh, which prevents filename (and I
believe alias) expansion of the command line. It may or may not be useful
for you.
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