Linux – Commenting in a wget list

It sounds like you entered the wget command directly into the Start->Run dialog. If that's the case, you want to do this to move it to your Desktop:

1. Start->Run, enter cmd, press ENTER.

2. Check that the file is there: dir lang2.JPG (should output the file details). If you don't see the file listed, run dir to get a full listing of the directory in case you've misspelled it (or wget didn't name it what you expected).

3. Move it into the Desktop: move lang2.JPG Desktop

This all assumes that the wget command that you ran executed in the same directory that the command window opens in. Step 2 should prove that one way or the other.

If you don't see the file listed in Step 2, you'll need to resort to using Windows Search, or redownload it (open a command window first this time!).

Bash is seeing the & symbols in the URL as a terminator of the command and executing it as a background process. If you enter any command in bash and append a & to it, it will run it in the background and return control to the calling script or the terminal immediately. The fields between them are being executed as commands itself.

To keep bash from interpreting the URL this way, enclose the entire thing in quotes. This will make it pass the whole URL as a string parameter, and it will run as a foreground process.