Using CURL command with special characters in URL

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Hi.
I 'm trying to hit a REST api and retrieve a JSON feed, and the URL has special characters in it.
Something like:
Example Domain

The below curl command is failing

curl -X GET https://www.example.com/?sample=name&id=1001

saying bad command at id=1001

I am going to use this as part of my script which will accept the url as parameter.

Can i use any option of the curl command to encode the & characters in the url automatically?

Please help.

Thank you.
Kumarjit

2

Try escaping the & character to prevent the shell from sending the curl command to background.

For sheer curiosity - which special character do you see?

3

Instead of looking for characters that are special to the shell and individually escaping them, it might be simpler to just quote the argument you're passing to curl :

curl -X GET "https://www.example.com/?sample=name&id=1001"
4

Thanks all. The command worked with enclosing the URL with double quotes and it worked.

Regards
Kumarjit