w00t. This gives me an excuse to post my Perl-IE-favorite-structure-dumper, snappily titled
dumpfavs.pl.
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use Data::Dumper;
use File::Find;
my $favorites_path = shift || 'C:/Windows/Favorites'; # assumptions
+ are amazing
my @favorites;
find(\&scan, $favorites_path);
print "done reading...\n";
print "outputting to dumped_favorites.txt...";
open OUT, ">dumped_favorites.txt" or die "couldn't dump favorites: $!"
+;
print OUT Data::Dumper->Dump([\@favorites], ['favorites']);
close OUT;
print "done.\n";
sub scan {
return if ($_ eq '.' || $_ eq '..' || !-f $File::Find::name);
my $record = {};
{
local $_;
open FAVORITE, "<$File::Find::name" or die "couldn't open $Fil
+e::Find::name: $!";
while (<FAVORITE>) {
s/URL=// and chomp and $record->{url} = $_;
}
close FAVORITE;
}
$record->{name} = substr($_, 0, -4); # can rely on as extension
+ is always url
push @favorites, $record;
print '.';
}
Fun. I've dumped mine with this many a time.
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