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Why WinSCP cannot accept special characters (@ or %) in password from command-line?
It can.
See command-line options. WinSCP treats session-specification on command-line as an URL. Hence any character that has special meaning in URL must be URL-encoded. This means it must be entered in format %XX, where XX is hexadecimal ASCII code. Some common examples:
- space:
%20or+ %:%25(percent sign)+:%2B(plus sign)/:%2F(slash)@:%40(at sign)
