Handling special characters in passwords when installing Edge Private Cloud 4.16.01

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You can use your Apigee ftp credentials to download and install Edge for Private Cloud version 4.16.01 by using the following curl command:

curl [https://uName:pWord@software.apigee.com/bootstrap.sh](https://uName:pWord@software.apigee.com/bootstrap.sh) -o /tmp/bootstrap.sh

where uName:pWord are the username and password you received from Apigee.

If your password contains special characters, such as “>”, “$”, “@”, or “*”, then you can either URL-encode them as part of the curl command, or use the curl “-u” option:

curl [https://software.apigee.com/bootstrap.sh](https://software.apigee.com/bootstrap.sh) -o /tmp/bootstrap.sh -u uName

In this example, you specify only your user name in the curl command. You will then be prompted to enter the password, which can contain special characters.

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You can use \ character before any special character . which means if your password is say ef$x@w then use something like ef$x@w in your curl command to access the ftp .

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You can also do

curl "https://UName:PWD@software.apigee.com/bootstrap.sh" -o **/tmp/bootstrap.sh**
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Some special characters like @ can’t be escaped by backslash or quote, you have to url encode with with %40 . The easiest way of doing it is to just use -u uName which prompts you to type in password where all special characters are ok.