bash wget script problem

Sun May 6 15:15:26 IDT 2012

On Sun, May 06, 2012, vordoo wrote about "bash wget script problem":
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Please, don't send here HTML mail...

>     Got a working script, on an ubuntu box, that will not run on arch.
>     It stops on:<br>
> ip_page=$(wget -q -O - http://$router_username:$router_pass@192.168.1.1/Status_Router.asp)

What does "not run" or "stop" actually mean?
Do you get an error? It hangs? Or what?

By the way, is $router_username or $router_pass set? To what? Or, if you
don't want to tell us, can you please at least protect router_pass
(which might perhaps have special characters) from the shell, as in

wget -q -O - "http://$router_username:$router_pass@192.168.1.1/Status_Router.asp"

What shell are you running this in, by the way? Bash? Something else?

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