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* Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} wput with weird characters
  @ 2007-08-31 21:20 99%   ` Grant
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From: Grant @ 2007-08-31 21:20 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

> > 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
>
> Did you try using ' around the whole argument? Like
>
> wput -A ... 'ftp://....txt'?

That did it.  Thanks everyone!

- Grant
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