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(Created page with "==URL encoding function== * Simple way to encode URLs for bash scripts.. Brainless but seems to work ok for most use cases.. <pre> urlencode() { local string="$1" local encoded="" local pos c o for (( pos=0 ; pos<${#string} ; pos++ )); do c=${string:$pos:1} case "$c" in [a-zA-Z0-9.~_-]) o="$c" ;; *) printf -v o '%%%02X' "'$c" esac encoded+="$o" done echo "$encoded" } </pre> Category:Bash") |
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==URL encoding function== | ==URL encoding function== | ||
* Simple way to encode URLs for bash scripts.. Brainless but seems to work ok for most use cases.. | * Simple way to encode URLs for bash scripts.. Brainless but seems to work ok for most use cases.. | ||
* Yes, this will encode the '/' character, but curl does not spit errors and I have not seen a failure doing things this way | |||
<pre> | <pre> | ||
urlencode() { | urlencode() { | ||
Revision as of 10:28, 10 July 2025
URL encoding function
- Simple way to encode URLs for bash scripts.. Brainless but seems to work ok for most use cases..
- Yes, this will encode the '/' character, but curl does not spit errors and I have not seen a failure doing things this way
urlencode() {
local string="$1"
local encoded=""
local pos c o
for (( pos=0 ; pos<${#string} ; pos++ )); do
c=${string:$pos:1}
case "$c" in
[a-zA-Z0-9.~_-]) o="$c" ;;
*) printf -v o '%%%02X' "'$c"
esac
encoded+="$o"
done
echo "$encoded"
}