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* Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} wput with weird characters
  @ 2007-08-31 19:22 99% ` Michal 'vorner' Vaner
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From: Michal 'vorner' Vaner @ 2007-08-31 19:22 UTC (permalink / raw
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Hello

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

Did you try using ' around the whole argument? Like

wput -A ... 'ftp://....txt'?

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