--- name: "urlencode" section: "1" platform: "linux" package: "gridsite-clients" version: "3.0.0~20240125git1200598-1.1" release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)" platforms: ["linux"] url: "https://new.carta.tech/urlencode" --- # urlencode(1) convert strings to or from URL-encoded form ## NAME **urlencode** - convert strings to or from URL-encoded form ## SYNOPSIS **urlencode** \[-m\|-d\] *string \[string ...\]* ## DESCRIPTION **urlencode** encodes strings according to RFC 1738. That is, characters A-Z a-z 0-9 . \_ and - are passed through unmodified, but all other characters are represented as %HH, where HH is their two-digit upper-case hexadecimal ASCII representation. For example, the URL http://www.gridpp.ac.uk/ becomes http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gridpp.ac.uk%2F **urlencode** converts each character in all the strings given on the command line. If multiple strings are given, they are concatenated with separating spaces before conversion. ## OPTIONS - \-m Instead of full conversion, do GridSite "mild URL encoding" in which A-Z a-z 0-9 . = - \_ @ and / are passed through unmodified. This results in slightly more human-readable strings but the application must be prepared to create or simulate the directories implied by any slashes. - \-d Do URL-decoding rather than encoding, according to RFC 1738. %HH and %hh strings are converted and other characters are passed through unmodified, with the exception that + is converted to space. ## EXIT CODES 0 is always returned. ## AUTHOR Andrew McNab \ urlencode is part of GridSite: http://www.gridsite.org/