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 ) id 1IRBl5-0006mS-8I for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 31 Aug 2007 19:02:19 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l7VIsw3J022272; Fri, 31 Aug 2007 18:54:58 GMT Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com (nz-out-0506.google.com [64.233.162.239]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l7VIojAK017615 for ; Fri, 31 Aug 2007 18:50:45 GMT Received: by nz-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id s18so679682nze for ; Fri, 31 Aug 2007 11:50:44 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=OpVtPsRHAmKrJ4zGgNd73z5R+xFQkHyeTPrMh3TyS+EcS9UEBK4/TsAcHaXfjL40p1vo6gpenWraRIz3lVuRZ7DBn5hQXM9lm2xW6TZLfH+YZCkRS15Ichj3GR3fsMn2+E/cwAy2y2XnV8awqMK80aqbg9eWZi8cdOPSwisdp5o= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=hyOTW6inEu5UfzNzSz31WvSMcKffiAwVrDyDCyZo4X81pY0gaUUupbbGuN7YCYsi7whrGbyNvVzGKHuUzW95v8oAID34z101WNIYZgE5VqjM7hyVDClBgk/VTJw9gNr0kQqhkKxJ5rwi+ClBzs/0XZSylah6bmd5Hv3oo2HE2Y4= Received: by 10.114.192.1 with SMTP id p1mr1100893waf.1188586243708; Fri, 31 Aug 2007 11:50:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.175.9 with HTTP; Fri, 31 Aug 2007 11:50:43 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <49bf44f10708311150p40e00aa8ta90e235c0bf6fb40@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 11:50:43 -0700 From: Grant To: "Gentoo mailing list" Subject: [gentoo-user] {OT} wput with weird characters Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail 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 X-Archives-Salt: b7fb9a98-6dc0-4938-bfa3-ee089a04ee9b X-Archives-Hash: 31fd753479f0b4e0e1e1e9390642a0b0 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 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list