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Find/Replace htmlentities using the standard linux toolchain?

Answer 1

+5 A:

Use recode.

$ echo 'Hello, &amp; world! &quot;' | recode HTML_4.0
Hello, & world! "

EDIT: By the way, recode offers several different conversions corresponding to different versions of HTML and XML, so you can use e.g. HTML_3.2 instead of HTML_4.0 if you have a really old HTML document. Running recode -l will list all the complete list of charsets supported by the program.

David Zaslavsky 2010-07-23 22:43:20

`$ man recode` No manual entry for recode `$ type recode` bash: type: recode: not found (not to say it isn't excellent, but is it part of the standard toolchain?)

Stephen P 2010-07-23 22:54:28

@Stephen: You have to install it first.

Cam 2010-07-23 22:55:08

@Stephen P: Evidently it's not installed on your computer. It's debatable (AFAIK) whether or not `recode` is part of the standard toolchain, but it's very common, and if it isn't considered part of the toolchain, I doubt that anything that is could do the job.

David Zaslavsky 2010-07-23 22:55:49

This indeed doesn't seem to be part of the standard toolchain as I requested, but it's in the spirit of such a tool (ie exactly how I wanted) so I've marked it as the correct answer :)

Cam 2010-07-23 22:58:27

No argument that it's an excellent choice.

Stephen P 2010-07-23 23:10:39

Answer 2

+2 A:

alias decode="php -r 'echo html_entity_decode(fgets( STDIN ));'"

$ echo 'Hello, &amp; world! &quot;' | decode
Hello, & world! "

Maryam 2010-07-23 22:51:07

This is cool, so +1. It doesn't really answer my question though - I was looking for something along the lines of what David provided.

Cam 2010-07-23 22:56:15

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