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Old 05-17-2005, 07:11 PM   #1
Bwongar
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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.

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$ 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.
 
Old 05-17-2005, 07:29 PM   #2
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what if you escape it with a \? So something like

maybe even 3 slashes (\\\) or quotes?
 
Old 05-17-2005, 07:39 PM   #3
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Those were all good ideas, but unfortunately no dice.
 
  


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