Trouble with wget

Hi,

I'm trying to execute a wget command with a username and password on
Fedora Core 5 Linux. Problem is my username to the FTP site contains
a "@". Username is "dalvarado@thedomain.com". So when I try the
following, I get the following error:

[laredotornado@mymachine]~/dir1% wget -r ftp://dalvarado@thedomain.org:passwo...hedomain.org:/
ftp://dalvarado@thedomain.org:passwo...edomain.org:/: Bad port
number.

FINISHED --16:18:31--
Downloaded: 0 bytes in 0 files


I even tried adding a "\" in front of the "@", like so:

[laredotornado@mymachine]~/savetownlake% wget -r
ftp://dalvarado\@thedomain.org:passw...hedomain.org:/

but got the same error.

Any advice on how to fix? - Dave

I demand that laredotornado@zipmail.com may or may not have written...

> I'm trying to execute a wget command with a username and password on Fedora
> Core 5 Linux. Problem is my username to the FTP site contains a "@".
> Username is "dalvarado@thedomain.com". So when I try the following, I get
> the following error:

> [laredotornado@mymachine]~/dir1% wget -r ftp://dalvarado@thedomain.org:passwo...hedomain.org:/
> ftp://dalvarado@thedomain.org:passwo...edomain.org:/: Bad port number.
[snip]

> I even tried adding a "\" in front of the "@", like so:
> [laredotornado@mymachine]~/savetownlake% wget -r ftp://dalvarado\@thedomain.org:passw...hedomain.org:/

The shell ate that \ :-)

You could try \\@ (or \@, with the whole URL in quotation marks) or %40, but
you probably really want the --user and --password options or the --ftp-*
versions.

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