[gentoo-user] {OT} wput with weird characters

[gentoo-user] {OT} wput with weird characters

[Grant]

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?

- Grant
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Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} wput with weird characters

[Michal 'vorner' Vaner]

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Hello

On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 11:50:43AM -0700, Grant wrote:
> 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

Did you try using ' around the whole argument? Like

wput -A ... 'ftp://....txt'?

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Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} wput with weird characters

[Willie Wong]

On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 11:50:43AM -0700, Grant wrote:
> 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?
> 

Maybe you can try putting the username and password combination in a .wputrc 
file? 

W
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Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} wput with weird characters

[Alex Schuster]

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
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Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} wput with weird characters

[Grant]

> > 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
>
> Did you try using ' around the whole argument? Like
>
> wput -A ... 'ftp://....txt'?

That did it.  Thanks everyone!

- Grant
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Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} wput with weird characters

[Alex Schuster]

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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Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} wput with weird characters

[Michal 'vorner' Vaner]

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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.

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Michal 'vorner' Vaner

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