Is it possible to url encode a variable within a shell script?
#!/bin/bash
now=$(date +"%T")
DATA=$(wget -q -O - "http://someurl.com/x.htm?callback=webRequest&exthrs=1&extMode=&fund=1&entitlement=0&skipcache=&extendedMask=1&partnerId=2&output=json&noform=1")
wget -q -O - "http://somewhere.com?abc=$1&responseData=$DATA"
echo "-----COMPLETE----- $now $1 $RANDOM
"
I want to url encode the DATA variable, since its results have & in it, it messes up the params in the second wget, is there a way to url encode that DATA variable without using PHP to url encode?