On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, Michael wrote:

> but if I use
> curl "ftp://user:abc\/def*ghi@host/file.txt"
> the command hangs.

Hanging is a very bad error message...

Escaping is the solution, but you need to URL-escape it.

  curl 'ftp://user:abc%2fdef%2aghi@host/file.txt'

I would also suggest using ' instead of " so the shell doesn't mingle your
input.

  // Kjell
Received on 2005-09-29