NAME

url - format a URL according to a sprintf-like template

SYNOPSIS

# format as just the host
$ url '%H' http://www.example.com/a/b/c
www.example.com

# handle more than one.
$ url '%H' http://www.example.com/a/b/c http://www.github.com
www.example.com
www.github.com

# get the path
$ url '%P' http://www.example.com/a/b/c
/a/b/c

DESCRIPTION

Decompose the URL and reformat it according to a template.

The formats

• %a - the path

• %A - the addresses

• %f - the fragment

• %h - the hostname, with domain info

• %H - the hostname without domain info

• %i - the hostname in punycode

• %I - space-separated list of IP addresses for the host

• %P - the password of the userinfo portion

• %p - the port

• %q - the query string

• %s - the scheme

• %S - the public suffix

• %u - the complete URL

• %U - the username of the userinfo portion

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2020-2025, brian d foy, all rights reserved.

LICENSE

You can use this code under the terms of the Artistic License 2.