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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] lftp -u user,pass(word
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J. Roeleveld schrieb:
> On April 5, 2016 8:06:08 PM GMT+02:00, hw <hw@gc-24.de> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Have you tried:
> lftp -u "user,pass(word" ftp.example.com
> ?
>
> Maybe that works.

I tried that, too, no dice ...