Using URLs with parenthesis with Lynx I often use Lynx on a remote computer to look at websites (faster than port-forwarding). Sometimes the URLs I want to go to have un-escaped characters (for example brackets) that Lynx seems to need encoded. for example ` anExample.html` should be ` Is there an existing script for this? Alternatively is there some option for Lynx that would make it unnecessary?

You can escape a string on the command line by using single ticks, so


lynx ' anExample.html'


Will pass the URL unchanged to lynx, or any other program.