Re: mysqldump and special characters in the password

[Hans du Plooy <koffiejunkielistlurker@koffiejunkie.za.net>]

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