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 URLs. I'm

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

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 probably

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.dat | tr ')' '\n' | grep =http:// | cut -d = -f 2- history.urls It basically does this: 1) strips out all