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Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 10:23:20 +0100
From: Padraig Brady <padraig.brady@corvil.com>
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Subject: Re: [ILUG] converting strings of hex to ascii
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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.


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