function to decode HTML special characters

lib/sharedFunctions.sh

@@ -514,9 +514,16 @@ progressBar() {
   tput cnorm
 }
 
-# URL encoding/decoding from: https://gist.github.com/cdown/1163649
+htmlDecode() {
+  # Decode HTML characters with sed
+  # Usage: htmlDecode <string>
+  echo "${1}" | sed -f "${SOURCEPATH}/htmlDecode.sed"
+}
+
+
 urlencode() {
-    # urlencode <string>
+  # URL encoding/decoding from: https://gist.github.com/cdown/1163649
+  # Usage: urlencode <string>
 
   local length="${#1}"
   for (( i = 0; i < length; i++ )); do
@@ -529,7 +536,7 @@ urlencode() {
 }
 
 urldecode() {
-    # urldecode <string>
+    # Usage: urldecode <string>
 
     local url_encoded="${1//+/ }"
     printf '%b' "${url_encoded//%/\x}"