Carles Perello wrote: > while trying to httpd decode a slash "/" i get the following > > tmp=httpd -d "hello%2Fbye". > echo $tmp > ello%2Fbye I suspect you meant some backticks in that command... anyways which version are you using? Probably something older... it works here: # tmp=`httpd -d "hello%2Fbye"` # echo $tmp hello/bye -R