URL-Encoding on the command line?

MikeyCarter · 09-26-2005, 10:27 PM

Does anyone one out there know of a linux command line tool which can URL-Encode (for lack of a better term) a string echo'd to it?

ie

echo "<b>This is some text</b>" | <some command>

and the output would be "<b>This is some...

CroMagnon · 09-27-2005, 01:39 AM

URL escaping would be like "www.fred.com/this file" => "www.fred.com/this%20file"

If you just want to replace known entities for HTML, you could use sed:

Code:

echo "<b>This is some text</b>" | sed "s/</\&lt;/g;s/>/\&gt;/g"

but obviously you need to extend it for whatever other entities you need to include (&, &quot). If you just want to avoid finding all the entities, there's an awk script here that should do what you've described.

MikeyCarter · 09-27-2005, 09:10 AM

I knew about that one. I was hoping for something that was already built. (That way I wouldn't have to plan for every variation)

In any case thanks for including that code.