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Hi,
I'm doing a database export using the command:
exp userid=user/pass@instance parfile=exp_parms.dat
The problem is that the password contains special characters so the command fails with a syntax error. The command works perfectly fine when I run it without the password and just type it in when prompted, but I need to include the password in the command because I am running it in a batch file. I've tried using the escape character (\), but this results in a username-password mismatch.
Is there some way of declaring a password containing special characters in the 'exp' command?
...Thanks in advanced!

Hi,
I'm using linux and this is how I did it.
I created a user named ddg with a password ddg)ddg
I did my expdp command like:
expdp ddg/"ddg\)ddg" directory=dpump_dir dumpfile=ddg.dmp
Put the password in double quotes and escape the funny character with a \
Hope this helps.
Dean

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