deurlname(1)

deurlname1

Remove url-encoded characters from file names.

Usage

deurlname [OPTION] ... [FILE] ...

Overview

This manual page document describes the deurlname command.

deurlname will rename every file specified on the command line that has URL-encoded characters in its name. The URL-encoded characters will be translated into the corresponding byte values. That is, %20 will become space, %41 A and so on.

Options

These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-').

-v, --verbose

Display every rename done.

--help

Show summary of options.

--version

Output version information and exit.

Releases

12 releases since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); the text changed 3 times.

  1. 3.1
  2. 4.0
  3. 5.0
  4. 6.0–Arch

Reporting bugs

Report bugs to <[email protected]>.

Author

The author of renameutils and this manual page is Oskar Liljeblad <[email protected]>.

From renameutils 0.12.0-8 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.