ftp: special characters in password

Question

I need to execute this command

wget -r ftp://$USER:$PASSWORD@$SITE/

But first since there were some special characters (such as '!?') within the PASSWORD I had some problems that I solved by escaping them with '\'..

Now I am facing the problem that special character don't work with the ftp command...(here)

At the moment I get this:

Bad port number

This is because also some numbers are present within the PASSWORD, I tried to single-quote, but without success..

How can I solve, if I would not change the password?

On terminal, on Debian.

Use the --ftp-user and --ftp-password parameters instead of encoding it into the URL.
@Joe It worked, thanks. If you wanna make an answer I will choose it.

Joe · Accepted Answer · 2012-10-10 19:24:23Z

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Use the --ftp-user and --ftp-password parameters instead of encoding it into the URL

answered Oct 10 '12 at 19:24

Joe
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migrated from stackoverflow.com Oct 11 '12 at 10:41