vimeo: how to escape special characters like " and * in password(!) (not URL) on windows shell?

[mayowalug]

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As stated in subject line:
vimeo: how to escape special characters like " and * in password(!) (not URL) on windows shell?

If there is no way to do this in the shell, how about adding an option for the --video-password feature that reads from a text file?

thanks

[dstftw]

Similarly to URL.

[mayowalug]

No. Wouldn't have asked if that worked. Tried it of cource. Not working.

[hishamhaniffa]

Guys who still end-up here and the above suggested way doesn't work for you. You can use the interactive password mode in order to bypass the special characters in your password.

[bitraid]

Or you can use quotes, for example:
echo asterisk"*"quote""" outputs asterisk*quote"

[rautamiekka]

See if prepending with ^ works since that's Batch's way of escaping.