Hello

On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 03:45:54AM +0200, Alex Schuster wrote:
> Grant writes:
> 
> > > > wput -A file.txt ftp://username:abc\!123\&@ftp.example.com/file.txt
> > >
> > > Did you try using ' around the whole argument? Like
> > >
> > > wput -A ... 'ftp://....txt'?
> >
> > That did it.  Thanks everyone!
> 
> Hmm... there really should be no difference whether you put the whole string 
> between single quotes or just escape the ! and &. For the application you 
> start it is not even possible to see which notation you used.

Sure, but I never know which char I need to escape and which I don't.
This way I do not care - less space to escape it in bad way.

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Michal 'vorner' Vaner

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