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Abhishek dot py
Abhishek dot py

Reputation: 939

Error with '|' in password using python script

Friends,

I have created a python script for storing variables on servers.

When I run the following it runs properly

if server == '11':
    cmd1='p -ssh [email protected] -pw "goorba12345"'
    os.system(cmd1)

This runs fine and I can open the server. This command opens putty and log me on the server.

But if the pasword have '|' then it is giving me error:

if server == '11':
    cmd1='p -ssh [email protected] -pw "||||||goorba12345"'
    os.system(cmd1)

'goorba12345' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

I am on windows and opening putty sessions from this script. Any help is highly appreciated. Remember this will run command on DOS. I have tried to use bash escape sequence ^, but didn't worked.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 56

Answers (2)

jhauris
jhauris

Reputation: 1143

The '|' is getting interpreted by the operating system, so it's trying to pipe the output of the p command to the goorba12345 command. You need to escape the '|' with '^' character:

cmd1='p -ssh [email protected] -pw "^|^|^|^|^|^|goorba12345"'

Upvotes: 2

Jimmy
Jimmy

Reputation: 553

if server == '11':
    cmd1='p -ssh [email protected] -pw "^|^|^|^|^|^|goorba12345"'
    os.system(cmd1)

Upvotes: 1

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