* Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} wput with weird characters
@ 2007-08-31 19:45 99% ` Willie Wong
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From: Willie Wong @ 2007-08-31 19:45 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
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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