Why wget ignores query string in the url?

Question

I want to use wget to download the following 18 html files:

http://www.ted.com/talks/quick-list?sort=date&order=desc&page=18  
http://www.ted.com/talks/q         


        

Answer 1

& is a special character in most shell environments, you can use double quotes to quote the URL to pass the whole thing in as the parameter to wget:

wget "http://www.ted.com/talks/quick-list?sort=date&order=desc&page=18"