I know I can translate upper to lower case letters by
echo 'linux' | tr "a-z" "A-Z"
who would I translate or replace an occurrence of & with %20%26%20. Maybe something like this
echo '&' | tr "&" "%20%26%20"
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A:
sed -i 's/&/%20%26%20/g' inputfile
will edit the file in place.
Dennis Williamson
2010-07-19 22:16:54
You forgot -i and s?
Anders
2010-07-19 22:19:04
hfranco
2010-07-19 22:29:36
@hfranco: On my system, the ampersand doesn't need to be escaped on the left side.
Dennis Williamson
2010-07-19 23:05:12
@hfranco. Yeah, mine is fine also.
Anders
2010-07-19 23:28:23
A:
you can just use the shell.
$ var="&test"
$ echo ${var//&/%20%26%20}
%20%26%20test
ghostdog74
2010-07-20 00:35:04