shell script to print three words differently I have tried
{
a="Uname/pass#last"
echo $a | tr "/" "\n" | tr "#" "\n"
output is:
Uname
pass
last
}
I want it as
{Username- Uname
Password- pass
lastname-last}
Ok, I guess you want to add a prefix to each results:
printf 'Username\nPassword\nlastname' > /tmp/prefixes
a="Uname/pass#last"
echo "${a}" | tr '/#' '\n\n' | paste -d':' /tmp/prefixes -
ie: paste together the output of /tmp/prefixes and of the Standard Input (-), which is receiving the output of : echo ".../...#..." | tr '/#' '\n\n'
(and in the resulting output, separate the 2 with a : in this example, or whatever else you would want. Ex: - like in your question.)
and it outputs :
Username:user
Password:pass
lastname:last
(I know you wanted a - instead of a : but I give my example with : to better separate the "-" denoting the standard input, and the ":" denoting the field-separator character in the output. Just change -d':' into -d'-' to have a - instead.)
First off, I hope you're not going to manipulate important passwords in a shell script and external commands. There are some risks involved with that.
Defining the problem
I suspect you want split a string encoding a user's Username, password and surname into a three line structure, adding tags to document which is which. For that, tr is insufficient.
However, it can be done inside the shell.
Example (bash, ksh):
function split_account_string {
typeset account=${1:?account string} uname pass last t
uname=${account%%/*}
last=${account##*#}
t=${account#$uname/}
pass=${t%#*}
[[ $uname/$pass#$last == "$account" ]] || return
echo "{Username-$uname"
echo "Password-$pass"
echo "lastname-$last}"
}
split_account_string "USER_A/seKreT#John.Doe"
This function will extract all tokens between the first / and the last # as the value of the password. If either one is missing, it will print nothing, and return an error status.
When run, this gives:
{Username-USER_A
Password-seKreT
lastname-John.Doe}
Use this simple script and get the output.
#!/bin/bash
a="Uname/pass#last"
array2=(`echo $a | tr "/" "\n" | tr "#" "\n"`)
array1=(`echo -e "Username\nPassword\nlastname"`)
i=${#array1[#]}
for (( j=0 ; j<$i ; j++ ))
do
echo "${array1[$j]}=${array2[$j]}"
done
How to I concatenate stdin to a string, like this?
echo "input" | COMMAND "string"
and get
inputstring
A bit hacky, but this might be the shortest way to do what you asked in the question (use a pipe to accept stdout from echo "input" as stdin to another process / command:
echo "input" | awk '{print $1"string"}'
Output:
inputstring
What task are you exactly trying to accomplish? More context can get you more direction on a better solution.
Update - responding to comment:
#NoamRoss
The more idiomatic way of doing what you want is then:
echo 'http://dx.doi.org/'"$(pbpaste)"
The $(...) syntax is called command substitution. In short, it executes the commands enclosed in a new subshell, and substitutes the its stdout output to where the $(...) was invoked in the parent shell. So you would get, in effect:
echo 'http://dx.doi.org/'"rsif.2012.0125"
use cat - to read from stdin, and put it in $() to throw away the trailing newline
echo input | COMMAND "$(cat -)string"
However why don't you drop the pipe and grab the output of the left side in a command substitution:
COMMAND "$(echo input)string"
I'm often using pipes, so this tends to be an easy way to prefix and suffix stdin:
echo -n "my standard in" | cat <(echo -n "prefix... ") - <(echo " ...suffix")
prefix... my standard in ...suffix
There are some ways of accomplish this, i personally think the best is:
echo input | while read line; do echo $line string; done
Another can be by substituting "$" (end of line character) with "string" in a sed command:
echo input | sed "s/$/ string/g"
Why i prefer the former? Because it concatenates a string to stdin instantly, for example with the following command:
(echo input_one ;sleep 5; echo input_two ) | while read line; do echo $line string; done
you get immediatly the first output:
input_one string
and then after 5 seconds you get the other echo:
input_two string
On the other hand using "sed" first it performs all the content of the parenthesis and then it gives it to "sed", so the command
(echo input_one ;sleep 5; echo input_two ) | sed "s/$/ string/g"
will output both the lines
input_one string
input_two string
after 5 seconds.
This can be very useful in cases you are performing calls to functions which takes a long time to complete and want to be continuously updated about the output of the function.
You can do it with sed:
seq 5 | sed '$a\6'
seq 5 | sed '$ s/.*/\0 6/'
In your example:
echo input | sed 's/.*/\0string/'
I know this is a few years late, but you can accomplish this with the xargs -J option:
echo "input" | xargs -J "%" echo "%" "string"
And since it is xargs, you can do this on multiple lines of a file at once. If the file 'names' has three lines, like:
Adam
Bob
Charlie
You could do:
cat names | xargs -n 1 -J "%" echo "I like" "%" "because he is nice"
Also works:
seq -w 0 100 | xargs -I {} echo "string "{}
Will generate strings like:
string 000
string 001
string 002
string 003
string 004
...
The command you posted would take the string "input" use it as COMMAND's stdin stream, which would not produce the results you are looking for unless COMMAND first printed out the contents of its stdin and then printed out its command line arguments.
It seems like what you want to do is more close to command substitution.
http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Command-Substitution.html#Command-Substitution
With command substitution you can have a commandline like this:
echo input `COMMAND "string"`
This will first evaluate COMMAND with "string" as input, and then expand the results of that commands execution onto a line, replacing what's between the ‘`’ characters.
cat will be my choice: ls | cat - <(echo new line)
With perl
echo "input" | perl -ne 'print "prefix $_"'
Output:
prefix input
A solution using sd (basically a modern sed; much easier to use IMO):
# replace '$' (end of string marker) with 'Ipsum'
# the `e` flag disables multi-line matching (treats all lines as one)
$ echo "Lorem" | sd --flags e '$' 'Ipsum'
Lorem
Ipsum#no new line here
You might observe that Ipsum appears on a new line, and the output is missing a \n. The reason is echo's output ends in a \n, and you didn't tell sd to add a new \n. sd is technically correct because it's doing exactly what you are asking it to do and nothing else.
However this may not be what you want, so instead you can do this:
# replace '\n$' (new line, immediately followed by end of string) by 'Ipsum\n'
# don't forget to re-add the `\n` that you removed (if you want it)
$ echo "Lorem" | sd --flags e '\n$' 'Ipsum\n'
LoremIpsum
If you have a multi-line string, but you want to append to the end of each individual line:
$ ls
foo bar baz
$ ls | sd '\n' '/file\n'
bar/file
baz/file
foo/file
I want to prepend my sql script with "set" statement before running it.
So I echo the "set" instruction, then pipe it to cat. Command cat takes two parameters : STDIN marked as "-" and my sql file, cat joins both of them to one output. Next I pass the result to mysql command to run it as a script.
echo "set #ZERO_PRODUCTS_DISPLAY='$ZERO_PRODUCTS_DISPLAY';" | cat - sql/test_parameter.sql | mysql
p.s. mysql login and password stored in .my.cnf file
I have one problem.
My text should be aligned by right in specified width. I have managed to cut output to the desired size, but i have problem with putting everything on right side
Here is what i got:
#!/usr/local/bin/bash
length=$1
file=$2
echo $1
echo -e "length = $length \t file = $file "
f=`fold -w$length $file > output`
while read line
do
echo "line is $line"
done < "output"
thanks
Try:
printf "%40.40s\n" "$line"
This will make it right-aligned with width 40. If you want no truncation, drop .40 (thanks Dennis!):
printf "%40s\n" "$line"
For example:
printf "%5.5s\n" abc
printf "%5.5s\n" abcdefghij
printf "%5s\n" abc
printf "%5s\n" abcdefghij
will print:
abc
abcde
abc
abcdefghij
Your final step could be
sed -e :a -e 's/^.\{1,$length\}$/ &/;ta'
This is a very old question (2010) but it's the top google result, so might as well. Of the existing answers here, one is a guess that doesn't adjust for terminal width, and the other one invokes sed which is unnecessarily costly.
The printf solution is better as it's a bash builtin, so it vwon't slow things down, but instead of guessing - bash gives you $COLUMNS to tell you how wide the terminal window you're dealing with is.
so while you can explicitly align to, say the 40th column:
printf "%40s\n" "$the_weather"
You can size it for whatever your terminal width is with:
printf "%$COLUMNSs\n" "$the_weather"
(since we're mixing up syntax here, we have used the full form syntax for a bash variable i.e. ${COLUMNS} instead of $COLUMNS, so that bash can identify the variable from the other syntax
In action .. now that we've freed up all that sed processing time, we can use it for something else maybe:
the_weather="$(curl -sm2 'http://wttr.in/Dublin?format=%l:+%c+%f')"
printf "%${COLUMNS}s\n" "${the_weather:-I hope the weather is nice}"
For example look at the following line of bash-code
eval `echo "ls *.jpg"`
It lists all jpgs in the current directory. Now I want it to just print the line to the prompt so I can edit it before executing. (Like key-up does for example)
How do I do that?
The reason for this question comes from a much more usefull alias:
alias ac="history 2 | sed -n '1 s/[ 0-9]*//p' >> ~/.commands; sort -fu ~/.commands > ~/.commandsTmp; mv ~/.commandsTmp ~/.commands"
alias sc='oldIFS=$IFS; IFS=$'\n'; text=(); while read line ; do text=( ${text[#]-} "${line}") ; done < ~/.commands; PS3="Choose command by number: " ; eval `select selection in ${text[#]}; do echo "$selection"; break; done`; IFS=$oldIFS'
alias rc='awk '"'"'{print NR,$0}'"'"' ~/.commands; read -p "Remove number: " number; sed "${number} d" ~/.commands > ~/.commandsTmp; mv ~/.commandsTmp ~/.commands'
Where ac adds or remembers the last typed command, sc shows the available commands and executes them and rc deletes or forgets a command. (You need to touch ~/.commands before it works)
It would be even more usefull if I could edit the output of sc before executing it.
history -s whatever you want
will append "whatever you want" to your bash history. Then a simple up arrow (or !! followed by enter if you have shopt histreedit enabled --- I think that's the option I'm thinking of, not 100% sure), will give you "whatever you want" on the command line, ready to be edited.
Some comments on your aliases:
Simplified quoting:
alias rc='awk "{print NR,\$0}" ~/.commands ...'
No need for tail and you can combine calls to sed:
alias ac="history 2 | sed -n '1 s/[ 0-9]*//p'..."
Simplified eval and no need for $IFS:
alias sc='text=(); while read line ; do text+=("${line}") ; done < ~/.commands; PS3="Choose command by number: " ; select selection in "${text[#]}"; do eval "$selection"; break; done'
#OP, you should really put those commands into subroutines, and when you want to use them, source it. (taken from dennis's answers)
rc(){
awk "{print NR,\$0}" ~/.commands ...
}
ac(){
history 2 | sed -n '1 s/[ 0-9]*//p'...
}
sc(){
text=()
while read line
do
text+=("${line}")
done < ~/.commands
PS3="Choose command by number: "
select selection in "${text[#]}"
do
eval "$selection"
break
done
}
then save it as "library.sh" or something and when you want to use it
$ source /path/to/library.sh
Or
$ . /path/to/library.sh
Maybe you could use preexec.bash?
http://www.twistedmatrix.com/users/glyph/preexec.bash.txt
(On a related note, you can edit the current command line by using ctrl-x-e as well!)
cheers,
tavod
I am trying to write a bash script for testing that takes a parameter and sends it through curl to web site. I need to url encode the value to make sure that special characters are processed properly. What is the best way to do this?
Here is my basic script so far:
#!/bin/bash
host=${1:?'bad host'}
value=$2
shift
shift
curl -v -d "param=${value}" http://${host}/somepath $#
Use curl --data-urlencode; from man curl:
This posts data, similar to the other --data options with the exception that this performs URL-encoding. To be CGI-compliant, the <data> part should begin with a name followed by a separator and a content specification.
Example usage:
curl \
--data-urlencode "paramName=value" \
--data-urlencode "secondParam=value" \
http://example.com
See the man page for more info.
This requires curl 7.18.0 or newer (released January 2008). Use curl -V to check which version you have.
You can as well encode the query string:
curl --get \
--data-urlencode "p1=value 1" \
--data-urlencode "p2=value 2" \
http://example.com
# http://example.com?p1=value%201&p2=value%202
Another option is to use jq:
$ printf %s 'input text'|jq -sRr #uri
input%20text
$ jq -rn --arg x 'input text' '$x|#uri'
input%20text
-r (--raw-output) outputs the raw contents of strings instead of JSON string literals. -n (--null-input) doesn't read input from STDIN.
-R (--raw-input) treats input lines as strings instead of parsing them as JSON, and -sR (--slurp --raw-input) reads the input into a single string. You can replace -sRr with -Rr if your input only contains a single line or if you don't want to replace linefeeds with %0A:
$ printf %s\\n multiple\ lines of\ text|jq -Rr #uri
multiple%20lines
of%20text
$ printf %s\\n multiple\ lines of\ text|jq -sRr #uri
multiple%20lines%0Aof%20text%0A
Or this percent-encodes all bytes:
xxd -p|tr -d \\n|sed 's/../%&/g'
Here is the pure BASH answer.
Update: Since many changes have been discussed, I have placed this on https://github.com/sfinktah/bash/blob/master/rawurlencode.inc.sh for anybody to issue a PR against.
Note: This solution is not intended to encode unicode or multi-byte characters - which are quite outside BASH's humble native capabilities. It's only intended to encode symbols that would otherwise ruin argument passing in POST or GET requests, e.g. '&', '=' and so forth.
Very Important Note: DO NOT ATTEMPT TO WRITE YOUR OWN UNICODE CONVERSION FUNCTION, IN ANY LANGUAGE, EVER. See end of answer.
rawurlencode() {
local string="${1}"
local strlen=${#string}
local encoded=""
local pos c o
for (( pos=0 ; pos<strlen ; 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 "${encoded}" # You can either set a return variable (FASTER)
REPLY="${encoded}" #+or echo the result (EASIER)... or both... :p
}
You can use it in two ways:
easier: echo http://url/q?=$( rawurlencode "$args" )
faster: rawurlencode "$args"; echo http://url/q?${REPLY}
[edited]
Here's the matching rawurldecode() function, which - with all modesty - is awesome.
# Returns a string in which the sequences with percent (%) signs followed by
# two hex digits have been replaced with literal characters.
rawurldecode() {
# This is perhaps a risky gambit, but since all escape characters must be
# encoded, we can replace %NN with \xNN and pass the lot to printf -b, which
# will decode hex for us
printf -v REPLY '%b' "${1//%/\\x}" # You can either set a return variable (FASTER)
echo "${REPLY}" #+or echo the result (EASIER)... or both... :p
}
With the matching set, we can now perform some simple tests:
$ diff rawurlencode.inc.sh \
<( rawurldecode "$( rawurlencode "$( cat rawurlencode.inc.sh )" )" ) \
&& echo Matched
Output: Matched
And if you really really feel that you need an external tool (well, it will go a lot faster, and might do binary files and such...) I found this on my OpenWRT router...
replace_value=$(echo $replace_value | sed -f /usr/lib/ddns/url_escape.sed)
Where url_escape.sed was a file that contained these rules:
# sed url escaping
s:%:%25:g
s: :%20:g
s:<:%3C:g
s:>:%3E:g
s:#:%23:g
s:{:%7B:g
s:}:%7D:g
s:|:%7C:g
s:\\:%5C:g
s:\^:%5E:g
s:~:%7E:g
s:\[:%5B:g
s:\]:%5D:g
s:`:%60:g
s:;:%3B:g
s:/:%2F:g
s:?:%3F:g
s^:^%3A^g
s:#:%40:g
s:=:%3D:g
s:&:%26:g
s:\$:%24:g
s:\!:%21:g
s:\*:%2A:g
While it is not impossible to write such a script in BASH (probably using xxd and a very lengthy ruleset) capable of handing UTF-8 input, there are faster and more reliable ways. Attempting to decode UTF-8 into UTF-32 is a non-trivial task to do with accuracy, though very easy to do inaccurately such that you think it works until the day it doesn't.
Even the Unicode Consortium removed their sample code after discovering it was no longer 100% compatible with the actual standard.
The Unicode standard is constantly evolving, and has become extremely nuanced. Any implementation you can whip together will not be properly compliant, and if by some extreme effort you managed it, it wouldn't stay compliant.
Use Perl's URI::Escape module and uri_escape function in the second line of your bash script:
...
value="$(perl -MURI::Escape -e 'print uri_escape($ARGV[0]);' "$2")"
...
Edit: Fix quoting problems, as suggested by Chris Johnsen in the comments. Thanks!
One of variants, may be ugly, but simple:
urlencode() {
local data
if [[ $# != 1 ]]; then
echo "Usage: $0 string-to-urlencode"
return 1
fi
data="$(curl -s -o /dev/null -w %{url_effective} --get --data-urlencode "$1" "")"
if [[ $? != 3 ]]; then
echo "Unexpected error" 1>&2
return 2
fi
echo "${data##/?}"
return 0
}
Here is the one-liner version for example (as suggested by Bruno):
date | curl -Gso /dev/null -w %{url_effective} --data-urlencode #- "" | cut -c 3-
# If you experience the trailing %0A, use
date | curl -Gso /dev/null -w %{url_effective} --data-urlencode #- "" | sed -E 's/..(.*).../\1/'
for the sake of completeness, many solutions using sed or awk only translate a special set of characters and are hence quite large by code size and also dont translate other special characters that should be encoded.
a safe way to urlencode would be to just encode every single byte - even those that would've been allowed.
echo -ne 'some random\nbytes' | xxd -plain | tr -d '\n' | sed 's/\(..\)/%\1/g'
xxd is taking care here that the input is handled as bytes and not characters.
edit:
xxd comes with the vim-common package in Debian and I was just on a system where it was not installed and I didnt want to install it. The altornative is to use hexdump from the bsdmainutils package in Debian. According to the following graph, bsdmainutils and vim-common should have an about equal likelihood to be installed:
http://qa.debian.org/popcon-png.php?packages=vim-common%2Cbsdmainutils&show_installed=1&want_legend=1&want_ticks=1
but nevertheless here a version which uses hexdump instead of xxd and allows to avoid the tr call:
echo -ne 'some random\nbytes' | hexdump -v -e '/1 "%02x"' | sed 's/\(..\)/%\1/g'
I find it more readable in python:
encoded_value=$(python3 -c "import urllib.parse; print urllib.parse.quote('''$value''')")
the triple ' ensures that single quotes in value won't hurt. urllib is in the standard library. It work for example for this crazy (real world) url:
"http://www.rai.it/dl/audio/" "1264165523944Ho servito il re d'Inghilterra - Puntata 7
I've found the following snippet useful to stick it into a chain of program calls, where URI::Escape might not be installed:
perl -p -e 's/([^A-Za-z0-9])/sprintf("%%%02X", ord($1))/seg'
(source)
If you wish to run GET request and use pure curl just add --get to #Jacob's solution.
Here is an example:
curl -v --get --data-urlencode "access_token=$(cat .fb_access_token)" https://graph.facebook.com/me/feed
This may be the best one:
after=$(echo -e "$before" | od -An -tx1 | tr ' ' % | xargs printf "%s")
Direct link to awk version : http://www.shelldorado.com/scripts/cmds/urlencode
I used it for years and it works like a charm
:
##########################################################################
# Title : urlencode - encode URL data
# Author : Heiner Steven (heiner.steven#odn.de)
# Date : 2000-03-15
# Requires : awk
# Categories : File Conversion, WWW, CGI
# SCCS-Id. : #(#) urlencode 1.4 06/10/29
##########################################################################
# Description
# Encode data according to
# RFC 1738: "Uniform Resource Locators (URL)" and
# RFC 1866: "Hypertext Markup Language - 2.0" (HTML)
#
# This encoding is used i.e. for the MIME type
# "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
#
# Notes
# o The default behaviour is not to encode the line endings. This
# may not be what was intended, because the result will be
# multiple lines of output (which cannot be used in an URL or a
# HTTP "POST" request). If the desired output should be one
# line, use the "-l" option.
#
# o The "-l" option assumes, that the end-of-line is denoted by
# the character LF (ASCII 10). This is not true for Windows or
# Mac systems, where the end of a line is denoted by the two
# characters CR LF (ASCII 13 10).
# We use this for symmetry; data processed in the following way:
# cat | urlencode -l | urldecode -l
# should (and will) result in the original data
#
# o Large lines (or binary files) will break many AWK
# implementations. If you get the message
# awk: record `...' too long
# record number xxx
# consider using GNU AWK (gawk).
#
# o urlencode will always terminate it's output with an EOL
# character
#
# Thanks to Stefan Brozinski for pointing out a bug related to non-standard
# locales.
#
# See also
# urldecode
##########################################################################
PN=`basename "$0"` # Program name
VER='1.4'
: ${AWK=awk}
Usage () {
echo >&2 "$PN - encode URL data, $VER
usage: $PN [-l] [file ...]
-l: encode line endings (result will be one line of output)
The default is to encode each input line on its own."
exit 1
}
Msg () {
for MsgLine
do echo "$PN: $MsgLine" >&2
done
}
Fatal () { Msg "$#"; exit 1; }
set -- `getopt hl "$#" 2>/dev/null` || Usage
[ $# -lt 1 ] && Usage # "getopt" detected an error
EncodeEOL=no
while [ $# -gt 0 ]
do
case "$1" in
-l) EncodeEOL=yes;;
--) shift; break;;
-h) Usage;;
-*) Usage;;
*) break;; # First file name
esac
shift
done
LANG=C export LANG
$AWK '
BEGIN {
# We assume an awk implementation that is just plain dumb.
# We will convert an character to its ASCII value with the
# table ord[], and produce two-digit hexadecimal output
# without the printf("%02X") feature.
EOL = "%0A" # "end of line" string (encoded)
split ("1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F", hextab, " ")
hextab [0] = 0
for ( i=1; i<=255; ++i ) ord [ sprintf ("%c", i) "" ] = i + 0
if ("'"$EncodeEOL"'" == "yes") EncodeEOL = 1; else EncodeEOL = 0
}
{
encoded = ""
for ( i=1; i<=length ($0); ++i ) {
c = substr ($0, i, 1)
if ( c ~ /[a-zA-Z0-9.-]/ ) {
encoded = encoded c # safe character
} else if ( c == " " ) {
encoded = encoded "+" # special handling
} else {
# unsafe character, encode it as a two-digit hex-number
lo = ord [c] % 16
hi = int (ord [c] / 16);
encoded = encoded "%" hextab [hi] hextab [lo]
}
}
if ( EncodeEOL ) {
printf ("%s", encoded EOL)
} else {
print encoded
}
}
END {
#if ( EncodeEOL ) print ""
}
' "$#"
Here's a Bash solution which doesn't invoke any external programs:
uriencode() {
s="${1//'%'/%25}"
s="${s//' '/%20}"
s="${s//'"'/%22}"
s="${s//'#'/%23}"
s="${s//'$'/%24}"
s="${s//'&'/%26}"
s="${s//'+'/%2B}"
s="${s//','/%2C}"
s="${s//'/'/%2F}"
s="${s//':'/%3A}"
s="${s//';'/%3B}"
s="${s//'='/%3D}"
s="${s//'?'/%3F}"
s="${s//'#'/%40}"
s="${s//'['/%5B}"
s="${s//']'/%5D}"
printf %s "$s"
}
url=$(echo "$1" | sed -e 's/%/%25/g' -e 's/ /%20/g' -e 's/!/%21/g' -e 's/"/%22/g' -e 's/#/%23/g' -e 's/\$/%24/g' -e 's/\&/%26/g' -e 's/'\''/%27/g' -e 's/(/%28/g' -e 's/)/%29/g' -e 's/\*/%2a/g' -e 's/+/%2b/g' -e 's/,/%2c/g' -e 's/-/%2d/g' -e 's/\./%2e/g' -e 's/\//%2f/g' -e 's/:/%3a/g' -e 's/;/%3b/g' -e 's//%3e/g' -e 's/?/%3f/g' -e 's/#/%40/g' -e 's/\[/%5b/g' -e 's/\\/%5c/g' -e 's/\]/%5d/g' -e 's/\^/%5e/g' -e 's/_/%5f/g' -e 's/`/%60/g' -e 's/{/%7b/g' -e 's/|/%7c/g' -e 's/}/%7d/g' -e 's/~/%7e/g')
this will encode the string inside of $1 and output it in $url. although you don't have to put it in a var if you want. BTW didn't include the sed for tab thought it would turn it into spaces
Using php from a shell script:
value="http://www.google.com"
encoded=$(php -r "echo rawurlencode('$value');")
# encoded = "http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com"
echo $(php -r "echo rawurldecode('$encoded');")
# returns: "http://www.google.com"
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.rawurlencode.php
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.rawurldecode.php
If you don't want to depend on Perl you can also use sed. It's a bit messy, as each character has to be escaped individually. Make a file with the following contents and call it urlencode.sed
s/%/%25/g
s/ /%20/g
s/ /%09/g
s/!/%21/g
s/"/%22/g
s/#/%23/g
s/\$/%24/g
s/\&/%26/g
s/'\''/%27/g
s/(/%28/g
s/)/%29/g
s/\*/%2a/g
s/+/%2b/g
s/,/%2c/g
s/-/%2d/g
s/\./%2e/g
s/\//%2f/g
s/:/%3a/g
s/;/%3b/g
s//%3e/g
s/?/%3f/g
s/#/%40/g
s/\[/%5b/g
s/\\/%5c/g
s/\]/%5d/g
s/\^/%5e/g
s/_/%5f/g
s/`/%60/g
s/{/%7b/g
s/|/%7c/g
s/}/%7d/g
s/~/%7e/g
s/ /%09/g
To use it do the following.
STR1=$(echo "https://www.example.com/change&$ ^this to?%checkthe#-functionality" | cut -d\? -f1)
STR2=$(echo "https://www.example.com/change&$ ^this to?%checkthe#-functionality" | cut -d\? -f2)
OUT2=$(echo "$STR2" | sed -f urlencode.sed)
echo "$STR1?$OUT2"
This will split the string into a part that needs encoding, and the part that is fine, encode the part that needs it, then stitches back together.
You can put that into a sh script for convenience, maybe have it take a parameter to encode, put it on your path and then you can just call:
urlencode https://www.exxample.com?isThisFun=HellNo
source
You can emulate javascript's encodeURIComponent in perl. Here's the command:
perl -pe 's/([^a-zA-Z0-9_.!~*()'\''-])/sprintf("%%%02X", ord($1))/ge'
You could set this as a bash alias in .bash_profile:
alias encodeURIComponent='perl -pe '\''s/([^a-zA-Z0-9_.!~*()'\''\'\'''\''-])/sprintf("%%%02X",ord($1))/ge'\'
Now you can pipe into encodeURIComponent:
$ echo -n 'hèllo wôrld!' | encodeURIComponent
h%C3%A8llo%20w%C3%B4rld!
Python 3 based on #sandro's good answer from 2010:
echo "Test & /me" | python -c "import urllib.parse;print (urllib.parse.quote(input()))"
Test%20%26%20/me
This nodejs-based answer will use encodeURIComponent on stdin:
uriencode_stdin() {
node -p 'encodeURIComponent(require("fs").readFileSync(0))'
}
echo -n $'hello\nwörld' | uriencode_stdin
hello%0Aw%C3%B6rld
For those of you looking for a solution that doesn't need perl, here is one that only needs hexdump and awk:
url_encode() {
[ $# -lt 1 ] && { return; }
encodedurl="$1";
# make sure hexdump exists, if not, just give back the url
[ ! -x "/usr/bin/hexdump" ] && { return; }
encodedurl=`
echo $encodedurl | hexdump -v -e '1/1 "%02x\t"' -e '1/1 "%_c\n"' |
LANG=C awk '
$1 == "20" { printf("%s", "+"); next } # space becomes plus
$1 ~ /0[adAD]/ { next } # strip newlines
$2 ~ /^[a-zA-Z0-9.*()\/-]$/ { printf("%s", $2); next } # pass through what we can
{ printf("%%%s", $1) } # take hex value of everything else
'`
}
Stitched together from a couple of places across the net and some local trial and error. It works great!
uni2ascii is very handy:
$ echo -ne '你好世界' | uni2ascii -aJ
%E4%BD%A0%E5%A5%BD%E4%B8%96%E7%95%8C
Simple PHP option:
echo 'part-that-needs-encoding' | php -R 'echo urlencode($argn);'
What would parse URLs better than javascript?
node -p "encodeURIComponent('$url')"
Here is a POSIX function to do that:
url_encode() {
awk 'BEGIN {
for (n = 0; n < 125; n++) {
m[sprintf("%c", n)] = n
}
n = 1
while (1) {
s = substr(ARGV[1], n, 1)
if (s == "") {
break
}
t = s ~ /[[:alnum:]_.!~*\47()-]/ ? t s : t sprintf("%%%02X", m[s])
n++
}
print t
}' "$1"
}
Example:
value=$(url_encode "$2")
The question is about doing this in bash and there's no need for python or perl as there is in fact a single command that does exactly what you want - "urlencode".
value=$(urlencode "${2}")
This is also much better, as the above perl answer, for example, doesn't encode all characters correctly. Try it with the long dash you get from Word and you get the wrong encoding.
Note, you need "gridsite-clients" installed to provide this command:
sudo apt install gridsite-clients
Here's the node version:
uriencode() {
node -p "encodeURIComponent('${1//\'/\\\'}')"
}
Another php approach:
echo "encode me" | php -r "echo urlencode(file_get_contents('php://stdin'));"
Here is my version for busybox ash shell for an embedded system, I originally adopted Orwellophile's variant:
urlencode()
{
local S="${1}"
local encoded=""
local ch
local o
for i in $(seq 0 $((${#S} - 1)) )
do
ch=${S:$i:1}
case "${ch}" in
[-_.~a-zA-Z0-9])
o="${ch}"
;;
*)
o=$(printf '%%%02x' "'$ch")
;;
esac
encoded="${encoded}${o}"
done
echo ${encoded}
}
urldecode()
{
# urldecode <string>
local url_encoded="${1//+/ }"
printf '%b' "${url_encoded//%/\\x}"
}
Ruby, for completeness
value="$(ruby -r cgi -e 'puts CGI.escape(ARGV[0])' "$2")"
Here's a one-line conversion using Lua, similar to blueyed's answer except with all the RFC 3986 Unreserved Characters left unencoded (like this answer):
url=$(echo 'print((arg[1]:gsub("([^%w%-%.%_%~])",function(c)return("%%%02X"):format(c:byte())end)))' | lua - "$1")
Additionally, you may need to ensure that newlines in your string are converted from LF to CRLF, in which case you can insert a gsub("\r?\n", "\r\n") in the chain before the percent-encoding.
Here's a variant that, in the non-standard style of application/x-www-form-urlencoded, does that newline normalization, as well as encoding spaces as '+' instead of '%20' (which could probably be added to the Perl snippet using a similar technique).
url=$(echo 'print((arg[1]:gsub("\r?\n", "\r\n"):gsub("([^%w%-%.%_%~ ]))",function(c)return("%%%02X"):format(c:byte())end):gsub(" ","+"))' | lua - "$1")
In this case, I needed to URL encode the hostname. Don't ask why. Being a minimalist, and a Perl fan, here's what I came up with.
url_encode()
{
echo -n "$1" | perl -pe 's/[^a-zA-Z0-9\/_.~-]/sprintf "%%%02x", ord($&)/ge'
}
Works perfectly for me.