recode is a handy linux command line utility to convert text with html escaped entites like & lt to <

May 27, 2019

Pontifications

See recode github site! And a recode question on stack overflow where i learned the following incantation :-)

```bash cat try2-2116-27may2019-test-api-stdout.txt |
recode html..ascii > try2-2116-27may2019-test-api-stdout.html