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UrlEncode function in Bash
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# put this in your .bashrc or .bash_profile
function urlencode(){
[ -z "$1" ] || echo -n "$@" | hexdump -v -e '/1 "%02x"' | sed 's/\(..\)/%\1/g'
}
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yrro commented Feb 27, 2017

If you only have coreutils lying around: od -v -A n -t x1 | tr ' ' %

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hazcod commented Feb 27, 2017 •
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@yrro: Thanks, but this seems to give me something weird on macos:

$ echo -n x | od -v -A n -t x1 | tr ' ' %
%%%%%%%%%%%78%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

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