From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E3C559CAF for ; Tue, 5 Apr 2016 12:43:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D7E1F21C02D; Tue, 5 Apr 2016 12:43:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from sunflo-mx.v.h.gc-24.de (gc-24.de [46.227.95.21]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C803721C01E for ; Tue, 5 Apr 2016 12:43:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from hw.v.h.gc-24.de ([192.168.220.17]) by sunflo-mx.v.h.gc-24.de with esmtp (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1anQKL-0007Mf-TQ for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 05 Apr 2016 14:43:25 +0200 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: hw Subject: [gentoo-user] lftp -u user,pass(word Message-ID: <5703B2ED.5070009@gc-24.de> Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2016 14:43:25 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:43.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/43.0 SeaMonkey/2.40 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: c4be906b-c307-4efa-a940-69753088ff1b X-Archives-Hash: ee70281376a4ec5c492a622f47b42300 Hi, how do you use lftp (to mirror a remote site) when the password you have contains a bracket? I'm trying 'lftp -u user,pass(word ftp.example.com', and there appears to be no way to escape characters in the password. Using single quotes also doesn't work, same as 'lftp 'ftp://user:pass(word@example.com'. It works with an entry in ~/.netrc, though I don't exactly want to have to use that.