Escaping a password using mysqldump console

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Published on 2010-03-25T11:09:57Z Indexed on 2010/03/25 11:13 UTC
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I am running a mysqldump via a bash script and have encountered a problem with a password that contains special characters.

mysqldump -hlocalhost -uUSERNAME -pPA$$W0RD DATABASE | 
                                gzip > /home/USERNAME/backups-mysql/BACKUP.gz

How do I escape the password?

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Escaping a password using mysqldump console

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Published on 2010-03-25T09:49:57Z Indexed on 2010/03/25 10:03 UTC
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I am running a mysqldump via a bash script and have encountered a problem with a password that contains special characters.

mysqldump -hlocalhost -uUSERNAME -pPA$$W0RD DATABASE | 
                                gzip > /home/USERNAME/backups-mysql/BACKUP.gz

How do I escape the password?

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