pscp - special characters in username and password

Question

I'm trying to run the following pscp.exe line and I keep getting failure and the list of options from pscp.exe: (I've swapped in content for host, username and password but left some special characters that are actually supposed to be in the fields):

pscp -v -l 123456789@sftp.server.org -pw abcDEF@12(345%XWZ MYFILE.zip server.host.org:foldername

How do I cope with the < @ . ( and % > in the username and password? I've tried \ escape and I get the same issue all the way through.

Any Thoughts?

I've experimented with swapping in clean text and it appears that it's the % in the password causing the problem. But how do I escape it? — CDenby, Jan 23 '20 at 15:57

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited Jan 23 '20 at 23:12

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The solution is that to escape a % in this particular instance, you use %%.

edited Jan 23 '20 at 23:12

Dharman

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answered Jan 23 '20 at 22:00

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pscp - special characters in username and password

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