Instead of looking for characters that are special to the shell and individually escaping them, it might be simpler to just quote the argument you're passing to curl:
Hi all,
How can I enable encoding of special characters present in URL?
eg
If the URL is
http://127.0.0.1/test.cgi?param1=test & test co
it shouldbe encoded to
http://127.0.0.1/test.cgi?param1=test%20%26%20test%20co
Thanks and Reagards,
uttam hoode (3 Replies)
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We have an URL for which we need to read the data and get parsed inside the shell scripts.
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