unable to pass wget a variable with quotes inside the variable

Question

I am trying to script a wget command to download a web page and all it\'s attachments and jpegs etc.

When I enter the script by hand, it works, but I need to run thi

Answer 1

Quotes inside of quoted strings or variables are ordinary characters, not quoting characters. There's no way to change that. Use an array instead:

A=(a b 'c d' 'e f')
cmd "${A[@]}"

calls cmd with four arguments a, b, c d, and e f.

(You could achieve a similar effect with eval, but that's a lot more error prone. In your case, using arrays is much more convenient.)