Database Software

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!