How to include an '&' character in a bash curl statement
BashCurlBash Problem Overview
I'm trying to use curl in bash to download a webpage, but the & symbol in the URL isn't interpreted as a character as I would like. Any ideas on how I can convince bash that the symbol & is just a boring character and nothing special?
Bash Solutions
Solution 1 - Bash
Putting the entire URL inside double quotes should take care of your problem.
Solution 2 - Bash
curl "http://www.example.com?m=method&args=1"
Are you using the & as a delimiter for a GET URL? Or is in a piece of data?
If it is in data you must encode it to an HTML character, if not, surround with quotes.
The encoding for & should become %26 in the URL.
curl "http://www.example.com?m=this%26that
Solution 3 - Bash
Putting single quotes around the & symbol seems to work. That is, using a URL like http://www.example.com/page.asp?arg1=${i}'&'arg2=${j} with curl returns the requested webpage.
Solution 4 - Bash
Instead of trying the escape "&" characters, you can specify http url parameters in POST requests with -d parameter as shown below:
curl -X POST http://www.example.com \
-d arg1=this \
-d arg2=that
If the request is a GET, then you should also add -G option, which tells curl to send the data with GET request.
curl -X GET -G http://www.example.com \
-d arg1=this \
-d arg2=that
Solution 5 - Bash
You can use %26 instead &.
The entity code will work fine.
Solution 6 - Bash
Use the parameter --url with double quotes worked for me
Solution 7 - Bash
easiest way :
curl -X GET -G http://example.com -d var1=$1 -d var2=$2