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 <Andrew.McNab@manchester.ac.uk>

       urlencode is part of GridSite: http://www.gridsite.org/