Handy script for MS Internet Explorer Users

[Alec Clews]

Here is something I wrote to export the bookmark URL's out of MS
Internet Explorer so that you can load them into another browser.

Enjoy, let me know if you find any problems with it

Regards,
Alec
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#! /bin/sh
#   traverse a diretcory of MS Internet Explorer URL files and 
#   print out an html list of urls to insert in a bookmark file

#    $1  - location of URL files - default is /windows/Favorites


echo '<ul>'
find ${1-/windows/Favorites} -type f -exec grep URL /dev/null {} \;|
sed -e 's/^..*[\\\/]\([^\/][^\/]*\)\.url:URL=\(..*\)$/<li><a
href="\2">\1<\/a><\/li>/'
echo '</ul>'




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