Quotation marks around the text containing special characters should work in Windows batch files.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Tony Godshall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Uma Shankar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2007 12:48 AM Subject: Re: Need help with wget from a password-protected URL > sounds like a shell issue. assuming you are on a nix, try 'pass' (so > shell passed the weird chars literally. If you are on Windows, it's > another story. > > On 11/10/07, Uma Shankar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi - > > I've been struggling to download data from a protected site. The man pages > > intruct me to use the --http-user=USER and --http-passwd=PASS options when > > issuinig the wget command to the URL. I get error messages when wget > > encounters special chars in the password. Is there a way to get around this? > > I really need helpo downloading the data. > > Thanks, > > Uma Shankar, Research Associate > > Institute for the Environment > > Bank of America Plaza CB# 6116 > > 137 E. Franklin St Room 644 > > Chapel Hill NC 27599-6116 > > Phone: (919) 966-2102 > > Fax (919) 843-3113 > > Mobile: (919) 441-9202 > > > > Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we > > have lost in information? -T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) > > > > > > > -- > Best Regards. > Please keep in touch.
