Restricted charecters in FTP password

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

hi

i am unable to connect to FTP server.My FTP password contain one special charecter '#'.it might be the problem for connecting.please clarify regarding this special charecter in the password.i need some information about restricted charecters in the shell script.

thanks

2

How do you try to connect and fail: from inside a script or on the command line?

3

hi
i am trying from the shell script

4

hi
from command line i am able to connect the remote server.but from the shell script with same password is not connecting.in the password last charecter is '#'.

5

Try something like this:

echo "
verbose
open nodename
user username 'mypasswd#'
get somefile
bye
"  | /usr/bin/ftp -n

# is the script "comment" character - it begins a comment.

6

Hey I've tried with the password having a # at the end. Try this

Let the variables username and password have the corresponding username and password or have it directly in the script.

ftp -nv $IP_ADDRESS << cmd
user $username $password
get file1
get file2
quit
cmd