From ilug-admin@linux.ie Wed Aug 28 10:49:47 2002 Return-Path: Delivered-To: zzzz@localhost.netnoteinc.com Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by phobos.labs.netnoteinc.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 022664415B for ; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 05:48:52 -0400 (EDT) Received: from phobos [127.0.0.1] by localhost with IMAP (fetchmail-5.9.0) for zzzz@localhost (single-drop); Wed, 28 Aug 2002 10:48:52 +0100 (IST) Received: from lugh.tuatha.org (root@lugh.tuatha.org [194.125.145.45]) by dogma.slashnull.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g7S9OZZ18095 for ; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 10:24:35 +0100 Received: from lugh (root@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lugh.tuatha.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA14364; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 10:23:52 +0100 Received: from corvil.com. (k100-159.bas1.dbn.dublin.eircom.net [159.134.100.159]) by lugh.tuatha.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA14339 for ; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 10:23:44 +0100 X-Authentication-Warning: lugh.tuatha.org: Host k100-159.bas1.dbn.dublin.eircom.net [159.134.100.159] claimed to be corvil.com. Received: from corvil.com (pixelbeat.local.corvil.com [172.18.1.170]) by corvil.com. (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g7S9Nin4053396 for ; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 10:23:44 +0100 (IST) (envelope-from padraig.brady@corvil.com) Message-Id: <3D6C9688.6010203@corvil.com> Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 10:23:20 +0100 From: Padraig Brady Organization: Corvil Networks User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020408 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: ILUG list Subject: Re: [ILUG] converting strings of hex to ascii References: <3D6A0BB1.8050607@corvil.com> <3D6A0DA5.6050104@corvil.com> <20020827182940.A6217@wanadoo.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: ilug-admin@linux.ie Errors-To: ilug-admin@linux.ie X-Mailman-Version: 1.1 Precedence: bulk List-Id: Irish Linux Users' Group X-Beenthere: ilug@linux.ie David Neary wrote: > Padraig Brady wrote: > >>>Paul Jakma wrote: >>> >>>>chars in hex to plain ASCII? >>>> >>>>eg given >>>> http://w%77%77%2Eo%70%74%6F%72%69um.n%65t/remove.html >>>> >>>>is there an easy way to turn it into >>>> >>>> http://www.optorium.net/remove.html >>>>eg, whether by piping through some already available tool, or >>>>programmatically (printf? - but i dont see how.). >>> >>Actually the following would be in some way sensible: >>echo -e "`echo "$enc" | sed 's/%\([0-9a-fA-F]\{2,2\}\)/\\\x\1/g'`" > > > Why {2,2}? Why not {2}? Me being silly, that's all. Pádraig. -- Irish Linux Users' Group: ilug@linux.ie http://www.linux.ie/mailman/listinfo/ilug for (un)subscription information. List maintainer: listmaster@linux.ie