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| faq_batch_file 2020-12-02 | faq_batch_file 2023-01-16 (current) | ||
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| ===== [[newline_escaping]] New-line Escaping ===== | ===== [[newline_escaping]] New-line Escaping ===== | ||
| - | Many examples on this site (including the one above), as well as [[ui_generateurl#script|batch file template]] generated by WinSCP, use [[wp>Batch_file#Escaped_characters_in_strings|new-line escaping]] using the caret symbol ''^'' to allow wrapping a long command line to multiple lines for a better readability: | + | Many examples on this site (including the one above), as well as [[ui_generateurl#script|batch file template]] generated by WinSCP, use [[wp>Batch_file#Escaped_characters_in_strings|new-line escaping]] using the caret symbol ''^'' to allow wrapping a long command line to multiple lines for better readability: |
| <code batch> | <code batch> | ||
| winscp.com /log=winscp.log /ini=nul /command ^ | winscp.com /log=winscp.log /ini=nul /command ^ | ||
| - | "open sftp://username:password@example.com/" ^ | + | "open sftp://user:password@example.com/" ^ |
| "get *" ^ | "get *" ^ | ||
| "exit" | "exit" | ||
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| You need to double the percent sign to escape it. | You need to double the percent sign to escape it. | ||
| - | For example in the following batch file, the username ''username@domain'' contains the ''@'' sign. As the ''@'' sign has a special meaning in the session URL, it needs to be encoded to ''%40''. But as ''%'' sign has a special meaning in the batch file, it needs to be escaped as ''<nowiki>%%</nowiki>'', resulting in final ''<nowiki>%%40</nowiki>''. | + | For example in the following batch file, the username ''user@domain'' contains the ''@'' sign. As the ''@'' sign has a special meaning in the session URL, it needs to be encoded to ''%40''. But as ''%'' sign has a special meaning in the batch file, it needs to be escaped as ''<nowiki>%%</nowiki>'', resulting in final ''<nowiki>%%40</nowiki>''. |
| <code batch> | <code batch> | ||
| winscp.com /log=winscp.log /ini=nul /command ^ | winscp.com /log=winscp.log /ini=nul /command ^ | ||
| - | "open sftp://username%%40domain:password@example.com/" ^ | + | "open sftp://user%%40domain:password@example.com/" ^ |
| "get *" ^ | "get *" ^ | ||
| "exit" | "exit" | ||
| </code> | </code> | ||
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| + | You can avoid the problem by specifying the credentials using the [[scriptcommand_open#username|''-username'']] and [[scriptcommand_open#password|''-password'']] switches: | ||
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| + | <code batch> | ||
| + | winscp.com /log=winscp.log /ini=nul /command ^ | ||
| + | "open sftp://example.com/ -username=user@domain -password=password" ^ | ||
| + | "get *" ^ | ||
| + | "exit" | ||
| + | </code> | ||
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