From: "Michal 'vorner' Vaner" <vorner@ucw.cz>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} wput with weird characters
Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2007 14:08:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070901120851.GA24045@tarantula.kolej.mff.cuni.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200709010345.55136.wonko@wonkology.org>
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Hello
On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 03:45:54AM +0200, Alex Schuster wrote:
> 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.
Sure, but I never know which char I need to escape and which I don't.
This way I do not care - less space to escape it in bad way.
--
You can't have everything... where would you put it?
-- Steven Wright
Michal 'vorner' Vaner
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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
2007-09-01 12:08 ` Michal 'vorner' Vaner [this message]
2007-08-31 19:45 ` Willie Wong
2007-08-31 20:38 ` Alex Schuster
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