De: "Himanshu Shekhar" <irm2015...@iiita.ac.in> > The problem is about reading metacharacters. For example, username is > "harry", password is "harry@123" , proxy server "10.101.12.1:8080". > Thus, apt.conf would have text > "http://harry:harry@123@10.101.12.1:8080";. > > This leads to unwanted behaviour. Apt stops reading the password after > the first @, but it should after the last one. > How to resolve this?
I find your choice of words confusing. Firstly "@" is not a "metacharacter", not for the shell anyway. Secondly, if an at sign ends up in apt.conf, it means that your script successfully "read" it, right ? So it's not a shell problem, it's an Apt problem. Things you could try : - Editing apt.conf and manually replacing the first "@" by "%40". Or maybe even "\@", "\\@", "\100", "\0100", "\x40", that sort of thing. - Seeing what RFC 3986 and Apt's documentation have to say on the matter.
