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Re: How to delete a file with '&' in its name on SFTP

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Fri, 3 May 2019 15:17:59 +0200 (CEST)

On Fri, 3 May 2019, Martijn Nabben wrote:

> C:\Progra~1\RipCurl\cURL\curl.exe -f --connect-timeout 10 --retry 1
> --retry-delay 30 -s -S -k -u "<uname>:<pword>" "sftp://<sftp
> site>/transfer/Waikato/blah.txt" -o "E:\<...>\Waikato\Download\blah.txt" -Q
> "-rm """/transfer/Waikato/blah.txt"" -w "%{size_download} bytes,
> %{time_total} ms"
>
> However when the file to be deleted contains an ampersand (&) the command
> fails with the following error:
> *curl: (21) Syntax error: Bad first parameter*

I'm not aware of any reason why '&' would be treated special for SFTP. Does
the Windows shell prompt do something special with it?

> 2) Replace & with %26 or \x26 - doesn't work.

I would expect '%26' to work exactly as '&'.

> We use curl version 7.23.1.

Wow, that's a mighty old version you're sporting. I would propose you at least
try this again with a modern version and see if there's any difference before
spending a lot of time on debugging it...

-- 
  / daniel.haxx.se
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Received on 2019-05-03