What about the --http-user= option? man wget
--http-user=user HTH Stu On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 18:22 +1000, Grant Parnell - slug wrote: > On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Michael Kraus wrote: > > > G'day... > > > > I'm wanting to retrieve some files of a web server using wget. > > > > Unfortunately though the username contains a @ symbol, and the man for > > wget indicates that the way to do what I want would be to: > > > > wget -r ftp://username:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/dir/file > > > > However, the username contains a @ > > Well it's going to be some form of escaping... maybe \@ or %40 > > -- > ---<GRiP>--- > Grant Parnell - SLUG President > EverythingLinux services - the consultant's backup & tech support. > Web: http://www.elx.com.au/support.php > We're also busybits.com.au and linuxhelp.com.au and everythinglinux.com.au. > Phone 02 8756 3522 to book service or discuss your needs > or email us at paidsupport at elx.com.au > > ELX or its employees participate in the following:- > OSIA (Open Source Industry Australia) - http://www.osia.net.au > AUUG (Australian Unix Users Group) - http://www.auug.org.au > SLUG (Sydney Linux Users Group) - http://www.slug.org.au > LA (Linux Australia) - http://www.linux.org.au > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
