NAME

urlencode

SYNOPSIS

urlencode OPTIONS [STRING]

DESCRIPTION

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

You can provide the string to encode as a command line parameter otherwise it will be read from standard input.

OPTIONS

-help

display help

-license

display license

-version

display version

-query

Use URL query style encoding (use plus for spaces)

-newline

Append a trailing newline

EXAMPLE

echo “This is the string to encode & nothing else!” | urlencode

would yield

This%20is%20the%20string%20to%20encode%20&%20nothing%20else%0A