It was kinda silly, but I too have the same confusion Roan
2009/5/14 Sam Korn <smoddy@gmail.com>:
> The & character has a special meaning on the command-line. TryGah, of course; ignore my post.
> putting quotation marks around the url, so
>
> wget 'http://localhost/~wiki/mediawiki/api.php?action=query&generator=allpages&gapnamespace=0&gaplimit=100&format=xml'
>
Roan Kattouw (Catrope)
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