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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] lftp -u user,pass(word
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Neil Bothwick schrieb:
> On Tue, 5 Apr 2016 14:43:25 +0200, hw wrote:
>
>> 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'.
>
> Try lftp 'ftp://user:pass\(word@example.com'
> or  lftp ftp://user:pass\\\(word@example.com
>
> The \ escapes the ( and the single quotes protect it fro the shell. In
> the second way, you escape the \ as well.

That's what I thought :)  I already tried and it didn't
work.