Re: mysqldump and special characters in the password



On Thu, 2006-08-31 at 08:06 -0500, Mumia W. wrote:
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?
[snip]
Put single quotes around the password.

That's the first thing I tried - I tried escape characters too - no joy.

Thanks
Hans


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