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From: Alex Schuster <wonko@×××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} wput with weird characters
Date: Sat, 01 Sep 2007 02:02:54
Message-Id: 200709010345.55136.wonko@wonkology.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} wput with weird characters by Grant
1 Grant writes:
2
3 > > > wput -A file.txt ftp://username:abc\!123\&@ftp.example.com/file.txt
4 > >
5 > > Did you try using ' around the whole argument? Like
6 > >
7 > > wput -A ... 'ftp://....txt'?
8 >
9 > That did it. Thanks everyone!
10
11 Hmm... there really should be no difference whether you put the whole string
12 between single quotes or just escape the ! and &. For the application you
13 start it is not even possible to see which notation you used.
14
15 Alex
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Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} wput with weird characters Michal 'vorner' Vaner <vorner@×××.cz>