os.system() with imbeded quotes on centos

[John Gordon]

In <0c9717ca-52dd-49ce-8102-e1432883858a at googlegroups.com> cevyne at gmail.com writes:

> someip = '192.168.01.01'
> var1 = 'lynx -dump http://' + someip + '/cgi-bin/xxxx.log&.submit=+++Go%21+++  > junk' 

'&' is a special character in shell commands.  You'll need to quote or
escape it.

Try this:

    someip = '192.168.01.01'
    var1 = 'lynx -dump "http://' + someip + '/cgi-bin/xxxx.log&.submit=+++Go%21+++"  > junk' 

Note the extra pair of double-quotes around the http:// part.

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