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From: "Michal 'vorner' Vaner" <vorner@ucw.cz>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} wput with weird characters
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 21:22:25 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070831192225.GA2993@tarantula.kolej.mff.cuni.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49bf44f10708311150p40e00aa8ta90e235c0bf6fb40@mail.gmail.com>

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Hello

On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 11:50:43AM -0700, Grant wrote:
> I need to periodically upload a file to an ftp server, but the
> password they've issued me has a '!' and a '&' character in it.  I
> tried escaping those characters like this:
> 
> wput -A file.txt ftp://username:abc\!123\&@ftp.example.com/file.txt

Did you try using ' around the whole argument? Like

wput -A ... 'ftp://....txt'?

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  reply	other threads:[~2007-08-31 19:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-31 18:50 [gentoo-user] {OT} wput with weird characters Grant
2007-08-31 19:22 ` Michal 'vorner' Vaner [this message]
2007-08-31 21:20   ` Grant
2007-09-01  1:45     ` Alex Schuster
2007-09-01 12:08       ` Michal 'vorner' Vaner
2007-08-31 19:45 ` Willie Wong
2007-08-31 20:38 ` Alex Schuster

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