NAME

urldecode

SYNOPSIS

urldecode OPTIONS [URL_ENCODED_STRING]

DESCRIPTION

urldecode is a simple command line utility to URL decode content. By default it reads from standard input and writes to standard out. You can also specifty the string to decode as a command line parameter.

You can provide the URL encoded string as a command line parameter or if none present it will be read from standard input.

OPTIONS

-help

display help

-license

display license

-version

display version

-query

use query escape (pluses for spaces)

-newline

Append a trailing newline

EXAMPLE

echo ‘This%20is%20the%20string%20to%20encode%20&%20nothing%20else%0A’ | urldecode

would yield (without the double quotes)

"This is the string to encode & nothing else!"