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From: Alex Schuster <wonko@wonkology.org>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} wput with weird characters
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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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