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

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