mysqldump and special characters in the password

From: Hans du Plooy <koffiejunkielistlurker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 13:04:26 +0200

Hi guys,

I'm setting up a script to backup the mysql databases on a web server.

For example:

mysqldump -u root --password=p@$$w0rd web8_db1

/home/backup/web8_db1.sql

This fails. But I can log in with mysql -u root -p and then type the
password in, and that works.

How do I get mysqldump to deal to deal with the funny characters?

Thanks
Hans

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