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    Agressive URL encode

Python based CLI tool to url-decode strings
Usage:

Firstly make a function in your .bash_profile to call the script
function url-decode()
{
    python ~/<path to script>/url_decode.py $@
}
Now simply call the script from your command line :)
$ url-decode "%66%6f%6f"
foo
$ echo "%66%6f%6f" | url-decode
foo


## url_decode.py
#!/usr/bin/env python3
from argparse import ArgumentParser
from sys import stdin, stdout
from urllib.parse import unquote as url_decode


if __name__ == "__main__":
    parser = ArgumentParser()
    parser.add_argument("string", nargs="*")
    args = parser.parse_args()

    if args.string:
        stdout.write(url_decode(" ".join(args.string)))
    else:
        stdout.write(url_decode(stdin.read()[:-1]))
	#!/usr/bin/env python3
	from argparse import ArgumentParser
	from sys import stdin, stdout
	from urllib.parse import unquote as url_decode


	if __name__ == "__main__":
	parser = ArgumentParser()
	parser.add_argument("string", nargs="*")
	args = parser.parse_args()

	if args.string:
	stdout.write(url_decode(" ".join(args.string)))
	else:
	stdout.write(url_decode(stdin.read()[:-1]))