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From: Alex Schuster <wonko@wonkology.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} wput with weird characters
Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2007 03:45:54 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200709010345.55136.wonko@wonkology.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49bf44f10708311420p3708670fq9effa070d2238761@mail.gmail.com>

Grant writes:

> > > 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'?
>
> That did it.  Thanks everyone!

Hmm... there really should be no difference whether you put the whole string 
between single quotes or just escape the ! and &. For the application you 
start it is not even possible to see which notation you used.

	Alex
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  reply	other threads:[~2007-09-01  2:02 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
2007-08-31 21:20   ` Grant
2007-09-01  1:45     ` Alex Schuster [this message]
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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