header='-d --header="User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0) AppleWebKit/537.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/23.0.1271.97 Safari/537.11"' wget "$header" http://google.com -O index wget: invalid option -- ' ' wget: invalid option -- '-' wget: invalid option -- '-' Usage: wget [OPTION]... [URL]... header='--header=User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0) AppleWebKit/537.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/23.0.1271.97 Safari/537.11' wget "$header" http://website.com -O index args=(-d '--header=User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0) AppleWebKit/537.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/23.0.1271.97 Safari/537.11') wget "${args[@]}" http://website.com -O index wget $header http://website.com -O index wget "$header" http://website.com -O index someheader="-d --header='User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0) AppleWebKit/537.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/23.0.1271.97 Safari/537.11'" wget "$someheader" http://website.com -O index