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Bwongar

05-17-2005 07:11 PM

Wget and "at-sign"

I need a cronjob to run a nightly script to download stuff from an FTP server. For this I use wget. The only problem is that I have an @ in my password and it screws everything up.

Code:

$ wget ftp://username:P@ssword@example.org/folder/file.tar.gz

Resolving ssword@example.org... failed: Host not found.

Any suggestions other than changing my password? I wish I could, but the idiots that run the server haven't gotten back to me in over a week.

auximini

05-17-2005 07:29 PM

what if you escape it with a \? So something like

Code:

wget ftp://username:P\@ssword@example.org/folder/file.tar.gz

maybe even 3 slashes (\\\) or quotes?

Bwongar

05-17-2005 07:39 PM

Those were all good ideas, but unfortunately no dice. :(

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