Neil Bothwick schrieb:
On Wed, 6 Apr 2016 10:14:40 +0200, hw wrote:
Mick schrieb:
On Tuesday 05 Apr 2016 20:06:08 hw wrote:
Neil Bothwick schrieb:
On Tue, 5 Apr 2016 14:43:25 +0200, hw wrote:
how do you use lftp (to mirror a remote site)
when the password you have contains a bracket?
I'm trying 'lftp -u user,pass(word ftp.example.com', and
there appears to be no way to escape characters in the
password. Using single quotes also doesn't work, same
as 'lftp 'ftp://user:pass(w...@example.com'.
Try lftp 'ftp://user:pass\(w...@example.com'
or lftp ftp://user:pass\\\(w...@example.com
The \ escapes the ( and the single quotes protect it fro the shell.
In the second way, you escape the \ as well.
That's what I thought :) I already tried and it didn't
work.
Did you try putting single/double quotes around passwd only?
Yes, that didn't work, either.
I had a quick look at the man page and it says that parentheses can be
used to group commands, so maybe lftp is misinterpreting the ( in this
way.
However, the man page also advises against giving the password on the
command line (because it is then available to anyone with normal user
shell access while the command is running) and suggests using either
I need to use it with a script for automatic downloads, so the password
wouldn't appear in the history. Using a ~/.netrc would create a
dependency on the user who runs the script, which is something I would
prefer to avoid.
~/.netrc, which you have already said works, or $LFTP_PASSWORD along
with --env-password. Have you tried this?
LFTP_PASSWORD='pass(word' lftp --env-password -u user ftp://example.com
Thanks, that looks like a good solution. I'll see if that works ...
