Fix - Pushing Packages To Nuget With Special Characters In The API Key

In some previous posts, “Pushing NuGet Packages To An Online Repository with the NuGet Client” and “Pushing NuGet Packages To An Online Repository with dotnet nuget” we looked at how to push nuget packages to repositories using either the native Nuget client, or the .net tool dotnet nuget.

To recap, the way to do this is as follows:

dotnet nuget push "*.nupkg" -k <YOUR KEY> -s <YOUR PATH>

Earlier today, I received the following error:

The clue is in the error:

The tool thinks the & in the key is the end of the key and the rest is another command.

The solution to this is simple - enclose the key in quotes.

dotnet nuget push "*.nupkg" -k "<YOUR KEY>" -s <YOUR PATH>

It should work perfectly now.

TLDR

When passing an API key to the dotnet nuget tool, enclose it in quotes.

Happy hacking!