Alan Dayley wrote: > I want to parse or convert to text the Firefox history.dat file. There > is apparently a Windows application called Dork that does it. But I'm > not on Windows. :^) > > All I want to do is extract a list of the URLs. I'm wading through > Google search results but it is probably faster to ask the group. > > Alan >
Nice little exercise. I'm sure there are a myriad of ways to do this. This is what I came up with (from directory containing history.dat): $ tr -d '\\\n' <history.dat | tr ')' '\n' | grep =http:// | cut -d = -f 2- >history.urls It basically does this: 1) strips out all backslashes and newlines 2) replaces all close-parentheses with newlines 3) selects all lines containing =http: 4) cuts off the front of each line up through the first '=' When I run it, what appears to be in the history.url file is nothing but urls. How's it work for you? -- -Eric 'shubes' --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
