Escape @ in wget for FTP login

Solution was to use

wget -m --user "user@domain" --password "password" ftp://ip.of.old.host

As fedorqui suggested but adding ftp:// before ip.of.old.host.

Thanks!

linux shell ftp escaping

The solution is to URL Encode the @:

wget -m ftp://user%40domain:password@ip.of.old.host

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