Script needed to pull URLs out of desktop shortcuts
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From: Ohmster on 16 Mar 2010 09:08 Bit Twister <BitTwister(a)mouse-potato.com> wrote in news:slrnhpu431.97a.BitTwister(a)cooker.home.test: > Looking at John's version of my script the line would look something > like > > echo "<li><A href=\"$_line target=\"_blank\">$_line</A>" >> $_out_fn > Late for work, more tonight! [ohmster(a)ohmster bench]$ echo "<li><A href=\"$_line target=\"_blank\"> $_line</A>" >> $_out_fn -bash: $_out_fn: ambiguous redirect [ohmster(a)ohmster bench]$ Not sure what the problem is, but whatever you wrote in the big script looks promising, will test it out tonight. Thank you so much, Bit Twister! -- ~Ohmster | ohmster59 /a/t/ gmail dot com Put "messageforohmster" in message body (That is Message Body, not Subject!) to pass my spam filter.
From: Ohmster on 16 Mar 2010 09:37 Cousin Stanley <cousinstanley(a)gmail.com> wrote in news:hnncn0$1p8$1 @news.eternal-september.org: > > Yo Cousin Ohm .... > > I'm still around and kickin' .... > > Thanks for the kind words. Cousin Stanley!!!! I still use ohms_work.py to this very day, it is a most excellent work of art. Thank you my very, very good friend. ;>) -- ~Ohmster | ohmster59 /a/t/ gmail dot com Put "messageforohmster" in message body (That is Message Body, not Subject!) to pass my spam filter.
From: dillinger on 16 Mar 2010 13:12
Ohmster wrote: > I've got a friend who is an artist and I made a nice website for him and > hosted it with his own domain on godaddy. One of the things he likes to > do with his website, aside from promoting his artwork for sale, is to > share culture and art links with all of his guests. From time to time, he > will give me URLs to add to the Links page on his site and I am happy to > do that for a good customer. I don't charge for stuff like that. > > But this man now gives me a DVD full of desktop shortcuts, 111 of them > plus 3 zip files containing even more desktop shortcuts. I have no idea > of how to extract a list of URLS out of these desktop shortcuts other > than to click each one in Windows, then copy the URL from the browser > address bar, and then paste it into a text or html list, rinse and > repeat. I do not mind doing this for 2 or 3 shortcuts, but for hundreds > of them? No way, would take too long and he will no doubt come back with > more. > > I have a nice Fedora 12 server networked to my computer where I test > websites and serve up my own domain. Linux is a very rich scripting > evironment, however, I do not have a good enough working knowledge of > shell, perl, python, cgi, or any other scripting language to know how to > do this. Can somebody help me please come up with a script that will take > all desktop shortcuts in a directory, process each one, and add the URL > inside to an ongoing list, prefereably clickable html, although plain > text would be alright? No, this is not homework or anything like that, > this is a real world situation and I just do not have the skill to get it > done. Stanley C. Kitching once helped me out with a dandy python script > that would take a text FAQ and turn it into a nice, clickable html > document with links and named anchors that would really work. A > magnificent work, thank you cousin Stanley, if you are still around my > friend. > > Here is what one of the desktop shortcuts looks like so you will see what > needs to be done: > > [DEFAULT] > BASEURL=http://www.lincart.com/ > [InternetShortcut] > URL=http://www.lincart.com/ > IDList= > [{000214A0-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}] > Prop3=19,2 > > or another one: > > [DEFAULT] > BASEURL=http://www.byroncoons.com/ > [InternetShortcut] > URL=http://www.byroncoons.com/ > IDList= > IconFile=http://www.byroncoons.com/favicon.ico > IconIndex=1 > [{000214A0-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}] > Prop3=19,2 > > The filenames on these things all have spaces in them too, although I > have a bulk file renamer that can change the spaces to underscores if > needed. Here is a sample listing of files (I have UNIX for Windows > installed on Windows 7 so that ls works,) > > C:\Users\Paul\Documents\PaulsPCWorks\Customers\Jean_Claude_Boutrouille > \Links_03-15-2010>ls > AbsoluteArts.com.url > Art Calendar.url > Art-Jean Claude Arts.url > ArtJean Claude Boutrouille -.url > Artnet -.url > Artspan.url > Artspan.zip > Boca Raton -EXOR.url > Boca Raton -Elaine Baker (2).zip > Boca Raton -Elaine Baker.url > Boca Raton -Elaine Baker.zip > Boca Raton -Karen Lynne Gallery.url > Boca Raton -Kevin McPherrin.url > Boca Raton -Rosenbaum Contemporary.url > Boca Raton -Schuyler.url > Boca Raton -Sundook Fine Art.url > Boca Raton-Addison Gallery.url > Boca-Janeris Photography.url > Canada-Galerie Simon Blais.url > Canada-Landau Fine Art.url > Charleston-Eva Carter.url > China - Art Galleries - Beijing.url > China-10 Chancery Lane Gallery.url > > Can anybody help with a scripting language or a simple script that will > do the things I want done with these files? > > Take URL out of each desktop shortcut file and put it in an ongoing list, > process each shortcut, adding the URL to the list, until all shorcuts are > processed and we now have a final list of all the URLs in the shortcuts. > A clickable html list would be a big plus, however a plain text list > would work fine. > > Thank you! > Easiest is probably to copy those .url files into the favorites folder of some user on windows, start internet explorer as that user and export his favorites to a file (bookmarks.htm). That way you'll end up with a html file with clickable links. Beware of things like & and other encoding errors though. Michel. |