---- "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 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
I just tried it on my firefox based history.dat file and it works. Kinda cool in seeing where my browser has been going. I saved the line as a script so that I can use it. Jon --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
