Decode/unencode/uncode html entities using php as bash one-liner

Alec Jacobson

Here's a very simple one-liner that takes input from standard in and decodes html entities:

php -R 'echo html_entity_decode($argn)."\n";'

So this example

echo "&quot;Watson &amp; Crick&quot;" | php -R 'echo html_entity_decode($argn)."\n";'

produces:

"Watson & Crick"