I went home for Thanksgiving this weekend, and while I was there, I wanted to grab a bunch of old bookmarks on my old computer, and then send the urls to myself back at college. However, IE doesn't have an "export bookmarks" feature. So, I wrote a quick one-off CGI script to go through the bookmarks folder and grab the urls from the files, and then spit them out in plain text format. 
#!perl -w
use strict;
use CGI qw(header);
use File::Find;
print header(-type=>"text/plain");
find(\&wanted, $ENV{USERPROFILE});
sub wanted
{
    stat $File::Find::name;
    return if -d;
    return unless -r && -f;
    open (BOOKMARK, $File::Find::name);
    my @bookmark=<BOOKMARK>;
    close (BOOKMARK);
    my $head;
    if ($bookmark[1] =~ /^BASEURL=/){$head=8}
    else{$head=4}
    print substr($bookmark[1],$head,length($bookmark[1]));
}

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Update: Added $ENV{USERPROFILE} instead of hardcoded path thanks to a comment by $code or die.

In reply to Grab all IE bookmarks on a windows machine. by jryan

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