Thanks for the reply..It didnt work with "" on both...
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Browse All TopicsI am having issues in connecting to a FTP server when the FTP Password has special characters.
I tried to escape characters using "", '', / characters.
Most of the characters in password are special characters.
It would be great if someone can let me know how to skip characters and get this password working.
Please find the attached code.
Thanks
smaram
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What I meant to say is "double quotes around the whole thing and backslash escapes for dollar signs and embedded double quotes"
your example - pwd="*F<%\$as!**"
another one - pwd="a*b\"d'e\$f"
If still no avail the problem might be related to character set or locale settings - but alas no idea how to work around this.
wmp
... just in case it's not clear - when working with double qoutes don't escape other characters than " and $ and \
The backslash itself needs to be escaped using a double \\ to avoid constituting a control character (strictly needed only when preceeding a, b, c, f, n, r, t, v, 0-9, but it does no harm using always \\).
were you able to connect / ftp manually?
you may as well try to store user details in .netrc file , please see the ftp and .netrc part in the below link
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by: woolmilkporcPosted on 2009-10-28 at 02:08:17ID: 25681114
Have you tried this?
pwd="*F<%$as!**"
quote PASS "$pwd"
(Note the double quotes " around both).
If no, I think it's worth a try.
wmp