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How can I encode and decode percent-encoded (URL encoded) strings on the command line?

I'm looking for a solution that can do this:

$ percent-encode "ændrük"

%C3%A6ndr%C3%BCk

$ percent-decode "%C3%A6ndr%C3%BCk"

ændrük

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answered 3 Years ago otatorm · Accepted Answer

These commands do what you want (using Python 2):

python -c "import urllib, sys; print urllib.quote(sys.argv[1])" æ

python -c "import urllib, sys; print urllib.unquote(sys.argv[1])" %C3%A6

If you want to encode spaces as +, replace urllib.quote with urllib.quote_plus.

I'm guessing you will want to alias them ;-)