From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IRDWB-0001jy-2w for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 31 Aug 2007 20:55:03 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l7VKlhtE014555; Fri, 31 Aug 2007 20:47:43 GMT Received: from mail.askja.de (mail.askja.de [83.137.103.136]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l7VKhOff009702 for ; Fri, 31 Aug 2007 20:43:25 GMT Received: from xdsl-213-196-210-116.netcologne.de ([213.196.210.116] helo=zone.wonkology.org) by mail.askja.de with esmtpsa (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1IRDKs-0008Ve-O3 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 31 Aug 2007 22:43:22 +0200 Received: from weird.wonkology.org (weird.wonkology.org [::ffff:192.168.1.4]) by zone.wonkology.org with esmtp; Fri, 31 Aug 2007 22:38:12 +0200 id 000302A1.46D87C34.00006762 From: Alex Schuster Organization: Wonkology To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} wput with weird characters Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 22:38:11 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: <49bf44f10708311150p40e00aa8ta90e235c0bf6fb40@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <49bf44f10708311150p40e00aa8ta90e235c0bf6fb40@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200708312238.12055.wonko@wonkology.org> X-Archives-Salt: 4ceee014-b6bb-47a4-82e3-dba9ae774d89 X-Archives-Hash: dc1f0a1ab5703378d530f84d614de1b9 Grant writes: > 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 > > but then it tells me the password isn't correct. How can I use a > password like that with wput? Are you sure the password is correct, does it work with an interactive ftp program? I just tried that, and it worked, with exactly the same password you used. Alex -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list