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I often use Lynx on a remote computer to look at websites (faster than port-forwarding). Sometimes the URLs I want to go to have un-escaped characters (for example brackets) that Lynx seems to need encoded. for example http://www.example.com/This(URL)is anExample.html should be http://www.example.com/This%28URL%29is%20anExample.html.

Is there an existing script for this? Alternatively is there some option for Lynx that would make it unnecessary?

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You can escape a string on the command line by using single ticks, so 

lynx 'http://www.example.com/This(URL)is anExample.html'

Will pass the URL unchanged to lynx, or any other program.

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