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Cc: Andrei Brezan <andrei693@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Mysqldump password issue
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On Thursday 02 October 2008 21:00:54 Matthew Seaman wrote:
> Andrei Brezan wrote:
> > Hello list,
> >
> > I wanna do a
> > mysqldump -u user -ppasswd --all-databases > backup.sql
> >
> > and all I get is
> > mysqldump: No match.
> >
> > This happens either i put --all-databases or I specify any of the
> > databases. I want to do a backup as user root, that's why I use
> > all-databases opt.
> >
> > If I use the command:
> > mysqldump -u root -p --all-databases >backup.sql
> > I get the password prompt, I type the passwd and everythig works great.
> > It seems that there is a problem with -p, i've tried --password with
> > same result.
> >
> > If anyone has any ideea please let me know about it.
> > I mention that i use Freebsd 7_0 and mysql 5.0.67
>
> My guess is that the password (which you've obviously elided) contains
> characters of syntactic significance to the shell.  Any of the following
> will lead to wailing and gnashing of teeth:
>
>   * ? [ < > & ; ! | $

Since I'm writing a parser currently that unescapes make(1)'s :Q modifier, I 
can tell you:
\ ( ) # ~ { } ] " '

belong in the same gnashing category.

-- 
Mel

Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules
    and never get to the software part.