Question

I have a simple Python script that receives username and password as arguments, but my password contains two exclamation marks. When I call my script like

salafek@dellboy:~/Desktop/$ emailsender.py -u username -p pass!!

a command that I entered earlier replaces the exclamation marks:

salafek@dellboy:~/Desktop/$emailsender.py -u username -p "passemailsender.py -u username -p passwget wget http://www.crobot.com.hr/templog"

I can escape exclamation marks with backslash (\), but my password changes.

Is there solution for this, how can I escape exclamation marks without changing my password?

Answer 1

You should be able to simply wrap things in single quotes in the shell.

$ emailsender.py -u username -p 'pass!!'