WoofyDugfock
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Posted: Mar. 17 2005,16:36 |
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If like me you use dillo a lot and have accumulated heaps of useful bookmarks, you may have noticed that the dillo bookmarks file /home/dsl/.dillo/bm.txt cannot be imported into your Firefox bookmarks - it's in the wrong format. Grrrr!!!
Opening your bookmarks page within dillo and saving as html won't help either.
Frustrated that I couldn't get Gnobog to import dillo bookmarks either and not able to google an existing remedy anywhere, I took some inspiration from Dawid Michalczyk's urlext.sh (GNU GPL), and wrote the little convert_dillobm.sh (see below).
To convert dillo bookmarks into a standard format & import into Firefox:
1. Open a shell, cd to the directory containing the script and enter ./convert_dillobm.sh ~/.dillo/bm.txt
2. This will output the converted file dillobm_converted.html in the directory in which you ran the script.
3. In Firefox, go bookmarks menu --> manage bookmarks -->file --> Import...-->from file -->(browse to dillobm_converted.html and select). That's it.
The dillo bookmarks are now incorporated into your Firefox bookmarks.
Hope this is useful.
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#! /bin/bash
# Title: convert_dillobm.sh
# Author: WoofyDugfock on dsl forum
# Date: 2005.03.17 Amended: 2005.03.18
# Purpose: Converts dillo bookmarks file (bm.txt) argument into a standard bookmarks html file
#- suitable for importing into Firefox etc
# Distribution: GNU GPL
{
echo "<html><head><title>Bookmarks converted from: $1 </title></head><body>"
awk '/http/{$1="";print}' $1 | while read ADR TIT; do
echo "<a href=\""${ADR}\"">"$TIT"</a><br>"
done
echo "</body></html>"
} >dillobm_converted.html #output file
exit 0
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