[aklug] Re: HTML unescaper

On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 11:15:03PM -0800, bryanm@acsalaska.net wrote:
> Does anybody have, or know of, a little command-line tool to unescape
> HTML urls (i.e. change '%2F' to '/', etc.)? It wouldn't be hard to
> code one up, but I won't bother if I can find one ready-made.

Expanding a bit:

> perl -MURI::Escape -wle 'print uri_unescape($_) for @ARGV' http://foo.com/%5ffoo http://bar.com/%5fbar
    http://foo.com/_foo
    http://bar.com/_bar

> cat test.html
    http://foo.com/%5ffoo
    http://bar.com/%5fbar

> perl -MURI::Escape -we 'print uri_unescape($_) while <>' test.html
    http://foo.com/_foo
    http://bar.com/_bar

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