Oh yeah, putting things like ampersands and quotes into file names is one of the "features" of wget that tends to put that tool on my "do not use" list. I'd rather spend a little more time probing a web site myself, and using a perl script with the LWP module to focus on the sets of urls I really want -- and as I fetch each page, assign a sensible file name (with no shell-magic characters) to save it locally.

But trying to maintain the linkages among the href's inside each file is a bit more challenging; jeffa's reply has the basic approach: convert all the wget-assigned file names to sensible names first (making sure to avoid collisions), rename the files, and keep the old-new relations in a hash; then, for each file in the harvest, replace all occurrences of a wget-style (cgi-based) file name string with the corresponding sensible name. Tedious, but not so difficult.

In reply to Re: substitution of illegal chars in filename by graff
in thread substitution of illegal chars in filename by lahf

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