passwords with quotes (single, double, backtick) and other special characters like "!"

[SanjeevKSharma]

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Is there a way to enter passwords with non-alphanumeric characters? does youtube-dl use One of the ways python/perl/shell do it?

I use quotes -single, double & backticks - this is the main question at the moment

I also use passwords with characters from the to top QWERTY row shifted (#~!@$^) - the big issue here so far is the exclamation mark which must be quoted for the shell otherwise they'll make a history entry.

[yan12125]

the big issue here so far is the exclamation mark which must be quoted for the shell otherwise they'll make a history entry.

The solution depends on the shell you're using. It's a limitation of shells. You can omit -p <password>, so that there's a password prompt:

youtube-dl -u <username> <video URL>

Or use .netrc to pass in credentials.

[midas02]

I've done some experimenting with this on Windows. What seemed to work for me, was to pass the password in between double quotes. I haven't tested all possible "special characters", but it seemed to work for &, !, @, and some others.

So my fix for now:

youtube-dl` http://url -u username -p "password"

Would be nice to get some feedback if this works for others as well.