Which hack is this? (golf challenge?)

[Hal Duston]

David Nicol wrote:
> [david at chicago david]$ perl -ple 's/%(..)/chr(hex($1))/ge' 
> '%77ww.o%6e%6cine%2du%70d%61%74e-c%65%6e%74%65%72%2ec%6fm' 
> 'www.online-update-center.com' 
> [david at chicago david]$ 

How about a bash one-liner?

$ bash -c 'printf "`echo ${1} | sed s/%/\\\x/g`n"' bash
'%77ww.o%6e%6cine%2du%70d%61%74e-c%65%6e%74%65%72%2ec%6fm'
www.online-update-center.com
$

Hal Duston