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FTP error in powershell

I'm writing a fairly simply script and I'm trying to upload a file to an ftp server. I'm using the following command

ftp -n -s:upload.txt 292.78.51.12 (I've faked the IP)

It works perfectly in command prompt but it seems to have a problem with it in powershell. I've tried giving the absolute path to upload.txt, put .\ before it and nothing seems to work.

Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

+2  A: 

You need to put quotes around "-s:upload.txt". I believe it has something to do with the colon in the option. If anyone could clarify why that would be great.

Robert  2009-09-23 02:20:44
Thanks, works perfectly now
Chris McGrath  2009-09-23 02:25:44
It appears to be the case in PowerShell v1, though not in v2 (which is why I had a hard time here reproducing that issue -.-). No idea why, though.
Joey  2009-09-23 06:44:44
They changed how they parse/send parameters to native EXEs. In V1, exe sees arg1=-s: arg2=upload.txt. In V2, the exe sees arg1=-s:upload.txt. In V1, quoting the entire argument fixes this issue.
Keith Hill  2009-09-23 15:18:55

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