Re: Parsing Firefox history.dat file?

---- "Eric \"Shubes\"" <plug@shubes.net> 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
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