How to include an '&' character in a bash curl statement

Question

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

Answer 1

Putting the entire URL inside double quotes should take care of your problem.

Answer 2

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.

Answer 3

You can use %26 instead &. The entity code will work fine.

Answer 4

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

Answer 5

Use the parameter --url with double quotes worked for me

Answer 6

easiest way :

curl -X GET -G http://example.com -d var1=$1 -d var2=$2