Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2000 21:43:12 -0500 From: Jon Hamilton <hamilton@pobox.com> To: Ryan Thompson <ryan@sasknow.com> Cc: Kent Stewart <kstewart@urx.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sending '@' in a password for ftp(1) Message-ID: <20000828024312.7DBE0137@woodstock.monkey.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 27 Aug 2000 13:31:50 MDT." <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008271329330.11846-100000@ren.sasknow.com>
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In message <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008271329330.11846-100000@ren.sasknow.com>, Ryan Tho mpson wrote: } Kent Stewart wrote to Ryan Thompson: } > Ryan Thompson wrote: } > > } > > Hi everybody, } > > } > > How do I send an '@' symbol as part of a password for ftp(1), using the } > > syntax: } > > } > > ftp ftp://user:password@host/path/file } > } > It has been a 2.5 years since I was doing something like that. We used } > a text file that was redirected as stdin to ftp. We did something like } > "ftp < mfg_data" and mfg_data looked like } > } > open mfg } > user anonymous } > ryan@sasknow.com } > put xxx } > quit } } } Yup.. that's easy enough... even easier with .netrc, but if possible, I'd } like to find a purely command-line driven solution (i.e., no I/O) so } everything can be contained in the script, and no temporary files are } needed. ftp -n << __EOF open mfg user anonymous ryan@sasknow.com put xxx quit __EOF and you're there. -- Jon Hamilton hamilton@pobox.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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