I have at the rate in the password (@) that I use to authenticate and use internet in my college. But to set proxy settings from the terminal we have to separate password and proxy host with @. Ubuntu is mistaking my @ in the password to this @.  Unfortunately I cannot change the password as the site, through which I can change by password, is down. And to set the proxy I did this: sudo gedit /etc/bash.bashrc in terminal and in the end of this file added this line   export http_proxy=username:password@proxyhost:port/   with my details.
I want to update ubuntu 11.04 throught apt-get. So I added the following lines in apt.conf  export http_proxy=http://username:password@proxyserver.net:port/ export ftp_proxy=http://username:password@proxyserver.netport/  export http_proxy=http://deepak:Deepak@123@12.1.1.1:3128   My question is: how do I insert special characters to a username or password?  For instance: my password for proxy is Deepak@123 and it is getting an error.
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