Re: Parsing Firefox history.dat file?

2008-01-01 Thread Sir Light
"Eric \"Shubes\"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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

Re: Parsing Firefox history.dat file?

2007-12-31 Thread Alan Dayley
Eric "Shubes" wrote: > > 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.urls > > It basically does this: > 1) strips out all backslashes and newlines > 2) replaces all close

Re: Parsing Firefox history.dat file?

2007-12-31 Thread Eric "Shubes"
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 pro

Re: Parsing Firefox history.dat file?

2007-12-31 Thread Josef Lowder
. On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 12:30:01 -0700, 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

Parsing Firefox history.dat file?

2007-12-31 Thread Alan Dayley
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.