From 1e781863fab020480fcc4535d66e67eb59da2f7c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alexandre Flament <alex@al-f.net>
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2020 10:43:42 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] [fix] command engine: SearchQuery.query is str not bytes

see c225db45c8a4ab466bff049216f7e0189dc1b067
---
 searx/engines/command.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/searx/engines/command.py b/searx/engines/command.py
index 08ee5da06..0268d52eb 100644
--- a/searx/engines/command.py
+++ b/searx/engines/command.py
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ def search(query, params):
 
 
 def _get_command_to_run(query):
-    params = shlex_split(query.decode('utf-8'))
+    params = shlex_split(query)
     __check_query_params(params)
 
     cmd = []