urlencode

base64-like encoder and decoder for URL encoding

Install

An AUR package is provided at https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/urlencode/ for Arch Linux and derivatives. Anyone else must manually build from sources.

Building from sources

To build the software, run the following commands inside the main source directory. Tested on Arch and Debian Linux, should work on most UNIX-like OSes. Windows users should try using MinGW, Cygwin or their favourite compatibility solution.

./autogen.sh
./configure
make

Then make install (must be run with elevated privileges) to install to a system-wide location (usually /usr/local/bin)

Usage

Reads from standard input, writes to standard output.

Options

• -a encode all characters
• -b do not automatically encode non printable (i.e. binary) characters
• -c specify a different set of reserved characters when encoding
• -d decode data
• -l encode input line by line
• -n do not output the trailing newline when encoding