Bash in Jupyter Notebook: 'SyntaxError: unexpected character after line continuation character'

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I'm trying to download some data using a bash script in a Jupyter notebook and having some problems.

I added quotes to the file paths after I received a 'SyntaxError: unexpected character after line continuation character' error.

However, I'm stumped on how to fix the same error on the Wget command.

This is the contents of the cell as I have it now.

%%bash

FILE=apple2orange

URL="https\://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~taesung_park/CycleGAN/datasets/$FILE.zip"
ZIP_FILE="./datasets/$FILE.zip"
TARGET_DIR="./datasets/$FILE/"
wget -N \$URL -O \$ZIP_FILE
mkdir $TARGET_DIR
unzip $ZIP_FILE -d ./datasets/
rm $ZIP_FILE

dreygur · Accepted Answer · 2019-10-07 10:38:10Z

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I have changed a little on your script. Now it looks like this:

%%bash

FILE=apple2orange

URL="https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~taesung_park/CycleGAN/datasets/$FILE.zip"
ZIP_FILE="./datasets/$FILE.zip"
TARGET_DIR="./datasets/$FILE/"
mkdir -p $TARGET_DIR
wget -N $URL -O $ZIP_FILE
unzip $ZIP_FILE -d ./datasets/
rm $ZIP_FILE

In bash strings : doesn't need to be escaped. That was the error I think. It works on my end.

Have a try.

answered Oct 7, 2019 at 10:38

dreygur

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