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 <gentoo-user+bounces-68848-garchives=archives.gentoo.org@gentoo.org>) id 1IRIK5-0007jQ-Uc for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 01 Sep 2007 02:02:54 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l811tTE8017195; Sat, 1 Sep 2007 01:55:29 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 l811p8Sv012172 for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Sat, 1 Sep 2007 01:51:08 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 <wonko@wonkology.org>) id 1IRI8h-000432-SN for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 01 Sep 2007 03:51:07 +0200 Received: from weird.wonkology.org (weird.wonkology.org [::ffff:192.168.1.4]) by zone.wonkology.org with esmtp; Sat, 01 Sep 2007 03:45:56 +0200 id 000302B5.46D8C454.00000D15 From: Alex Schuster <wonko@wonkology.org> Organization: Wonkology To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} wput with weird characters Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2007 03:45:54 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: <49bf44f10708311150p40e00aa8ta90e235c0bf6fb40@mail.gmail.com> <20070831192225.GA2993@tarantula.kolej.mff.cuni.cz> <49bf44f10708311420p3708670fq9effa070d2238761@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <49bf44f10708311420p3708670fq9effa070d2238761@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-user+help@gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+unsubscribe@gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+subscribe@gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-user.gentoo.org> 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: <200709010345.55136.wonko@wonkology.org> X-Archives-Salt: f1307e8b-380e-45d5-9fcf-167d745ec1ea X-Archives-Hash: 55bb494ffaa9071b803795ef44e7f952 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 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list