Escape characters in batch scripts

Question

I have the following script to automate uploading a file to a remote server. The problem is that the password I have been given is full of special characters which are killi

Answer 1

FYI, character prefixing is done with ^. So if you were doing an echo with > in the string but writing a file, it will fail without escaping. The syntax would be:

echo ^ >> foo.txt