[KLUG Members] url encode in a bash script

[Adam Tauno WIlliams]

> I appreciate the link, but I can't read the script.  It looks like it 
> requires a file instead of a variable, and I'm not sure how to include 
> an outside script in the current script.

Hmmm, I don't remember. I had this in my bookmarks.  I think I used it
at some point, but awhile ago.

> Maybe I'm making things too complicated.  I simply want to get the date 
> of a local file from within a bash script.  I was thinking of capturing 
> the output of stat and sending it off to parse elsewhere.  The output of 
> stat has spaces, etc., so it needs to be urlencoded before sending.  If 
> I could get just the date, which is already in the format of YYYY-MM-DD, 
> I could send that off as-is.

How about -
awilliam@estate3:~> stat flashplayer.xpt | grep ^Change | cut -f2 -d" "
2004-05-26