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From: Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} wput with weird characters
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 21:32:47
Message-Id: 49bf44f10708311420p3708670fq9effa070d2238761@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} wput with weird characters by Michal 'vorner' Vaner
1 > > I need to periodically upload a file to an ftp server, but the
2 > > password they've issued me has a '!' and a '&' character in it. I
3 > > tried escaping those characters like this:
4 > >
5 > > wput -A file.txt ftp://username:abc\!123\&@ftp.example.com/file.txt
6 >
7 > Did you try using ' around the whole argument? Like
8 >
9 > wput -A ... 'ftp://....txt'?
10
11 That did it. Thanks everyone!
12
13 - Grant
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Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} wput with weird characters Alex Schuster <wonko@×××××××××.org>