John wrote:
>
> Suppose I have a CGI script which receives a MAC address. I want to
> convert coded colons to colons.
>
> Is there any standard solution for that kind of problem?

$ PARAM_mac="01%3A0C%3A21%3A33%3A2A%3A22"
$ PARAM_mac="${PARAM_mac//%3A/:}"
$ echo $PARAM_mac
01:0C:21:33:2A:22

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