You could do that if you want to. I just thought I might possibly want to add extra fields to the file format later.

But yes, I'm aware of this trick. I'm storing my collection of (public) bookmarks in a text file where each line has the URL as the last whitespace-separated field, and generating HTML pages automatically uploaded to my homepage from them.

For example, a part of this source file looks like this. (First word is the level, as this is organized to a hierarchy; the URL null: is used for a heading that's not a link.) 

2 Könyvtárak (libraries, hu) null:
4 Magyar Országos Közös Katalógus null:next
6 katalógus (MOKKA) http://webpac.mokka.hu/WebPac/CorvinaWeb
6 nyitólap http://mokka.hu/
6 tagkönyvtárak http://mokka.hu/?q=mokkaegyesulet/adatok/nevjegyzekek/
+tagkonyvta
rak
4 Fővárosi Szabó Ervin Könyvtár null:next
6 katalógus (FSzEK) http://saman.fszek.hu/WebPac/CorvinaWeb;?action=ad
+vancedsear
chpage
6 nyitólap http://www.fszek.hu/

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This is then translated to some HTML that looks like this when rendered (I'm not pasting the HTML source here as it's a bit hard to read): 

      * Könyvtárak (libraries, hu):                                   
+          
                                                                      
+          
           * Magyar Országos Közös Katalógus  katalógus (MOKKA)  nyitó
+lap       
             tagkönyvtárak                                            
+          
           * Fővárosi Szabó Ervin Könyvtár  katalógus (FSzEK)  ny
+itólap

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So anyway, here I'm using the fact that the URL is always exactly the last word. If the last word of a line doesn't look like an URL, the rendering script gives me a warning.

In reply to Re^2: wgetas - download many small files by HTTP, saving to filename of your choice by ambrus
in thread wgetas - download many small files by HTTP, saving to filename of your choice by ambrus

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