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Dear #LazyWeb:

Is there a tool that I can use in a #bash script to sanitize a string for inclusion into a URL parameter (e.g.: "foo bar" becomes "foo+bar" or "foo%20bar")?

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in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

Uwe Schwarz ッ�
Uwe Schwarz ッ�
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echo 'foo bar’ | jq -srR ‘@uri’; if you use curl you could also consider curl --data-urlencode
in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

Sasha
Sasha
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maybe `jq`?

https://stackoverflow.com/a/34407620/8607180

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in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

Toby Inkster :verified:
Toby Inkster :verified:
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perl -MURI::Encode=uri_encode -E'say uri_encode shift' 'foo bar'
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