Escape a ! in the password parameter of wget
- by Dave
I'm trying to execute something like this:
wget --user=foo --password=bar! url
The ! in the password is causing problems. I've tried escaping it with \, as in
--password=bar\!
I've tried encapsulating in single and double quotes. I put the password in a separate file and tried
--password=cat pass.txt
Each time, I get a 403 Forbidden. Using -d, I see that the SSL handshake is successful. On the Windows command line, the command works. My assumption is that I need to escape the ! differently, but I don't know how else.
