How to escape @ symbol in enviroment file?

Question

I have my /etc/environment file set up with proxy settings. It looks like this -

http_proxy="http://userName:password@proxy:port/"
https_prxoxy="http://userName:password@proxy:port/"

The password contains an @ symbol which somehow seems to be conflicting with the latter @ symbol because of which I am not able to connect to the network. How do I escape the @ symbol in the password?

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 30 '15 at 18:39

Lets say that the password is 123@456. In that case, the correct wat to escape the @ symbol is this:

http_proxy="http://userName:123%40456@proxy:port/"
https_prxoxy=same_as_above

I've only replaced the @ with its ASCII hexadecimal representation (%40)

How to escape @ symbol in enviroment file?

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