On Mon, 22 Dec 2014 09:18:50 -0500 Anton Aylward wrote:

*sigh*

I have many generations of saved and backed up bookmark files that I would like to merge, preserving structure and correspondence.

Maybe these old things could help a little? They will likely need some customisation for your schema but most of the hard work is done. I get myself into the same kind of situation from time to time and A bit of scripting to remove all what mozilla adds to urls in bookmarks, removes all the duplicates it can find then allows them all to be merged into a single file. Because manually editing mozilla boomarks can get quite tedious after the first few thousand or so. (needs to export bookmarks as html. won't work on json/xml. This was done just before mozilla started using json. Handling json & xml is a future project.) BTW, I haven't had time to run them lately. I expect there are some things that need to be done better and more that just needs doing. I created several working directories: incoming - holds the source bookmarks files grept - intermediate dir uniq - inermediate dir sorted - intermediate dir clean - final output Process a bunch of bookmark files in batch, in several steps with each intermediate file dropping into one of the above directories. A cleanup script removes the intermediate files. Or should. IIRC, I was removing them manually after making sure all went well. batchconvert.sh: ==BEGIN== #!/bin/bash # # # # INDIR=/home/mobile/bookmarks/unclean/ OUTDIR=/home/mobile/bookmarks/clean/ SCRIPTNAME=/home/mobile/bookmarks/sedscript.sed MAKEBACKUP=Y COMPRESSBACKUP=N RMORIGINAL=N LISTONLY=N cd $INDIR for i in *.html; do if [ $LISTONLY = Y ]; then echo $i fi if [ $LISTONLY = N ]; then # make a backup copy? if [ $MAKEBACKUP = Y ]; then cp $i /home/mobile/bookmarks/unclean-backups/$i fi # compress the backup? if [ $COMPRESSBACKUP = Y ] && [ $MAKEBACKUP = Y ]; then gzip /home/mobile/bookmarks/unclean-backups/$i fi # clean the file if test -f $INDIR/$i ;then sed -f /home/mobile/bookmarks/scripts/remove-from-bookmarks.sed $i > $OUTDIR/$i ERRESULT=$? echo $i " processed. Error == " $ERRRESULT fi # remove the original? if [ $RMORIGINAL = Y ]; then rm $i fi fi done ===END=== cleanup.sed: ==BEGIN== /^<!DOCTYPE NETSCAPE-Bookmark-file-1>/s/^<!DOCTYPE NETSCAPE-Bookmark-file-1>/<!-- Sanitized HTML by sed -->/g /^/ has been removed! -->/g /

/s/<\/p>//g /^<DL>/s/^<DL>//g /^<dl>/s/^<dl>//g /^<DT>/s/^<DT>//g /^<dt>/s/^<dt>//g /^<DD>/s/^<DD>.*$//g /^<dd>/s/^<dd>.*$//g /<\/DL>/s/<\/DL>//g /<\/dl>/s/<\/dl>//g /<\/DT>/s/<\/DT>//g /<\/dt>/s/<\/dt>//g / PERSONAL_TOOLBAR_FOLDER="/s/ PERSONAL_TOOLBAR_FOLDER=".*"//g / personal_toolbar_folder="/s/ personal_toolbar_folder=".*"//g / ADD_DATE="/s/ ADD_DATE=".*">/>/g / add_date="/s/ add_date=".*">/>/g / LAST_VISIT="/s/ LAST_VISIT=".*" //g / last_visit="/s/ last_visit=".*" //g / LAST_MODIFIED="/s/ LAST_MODIFIED=".*" //g / last_modified="/s/ last_modified=".*" //g / SHORTCUTURL="/s/ SHORTCUTURL=".*"//g / shortcuturl="/s/ shortcuturl=".*"//g / ICON="/s/ ICON=".*"//g / icon="/s/ icon=".*"//g / LAST_CHARSET="/s/ LAST_CHARSET=".*" //g / last_charset="/s/ last_charset=".*" //g / ID="rdf:/s/ ID="rdf:.*"//g / id="rdf:/s/ id="rdf:.*"//g /ID="rdf:/s/ID="rdf:.*"//g /id="rdf:/s/id="rdf:.*"//g /<BR>/s/<BR>//g /<br>/s/<br>//g /<\/A>/s/<\/A>/<\/A><BR>/g /" ">/s/" ">/">/g /^$/d ===END=== cleanup.sh: ==BEGIN== #!/bin/bash # # # # BASEDIR=/home/mobile/bookmarks INDIR=$BASEDIR/incoming GREPDIR=$BASEDIR/grept UNIQDIR=$BASEDIR/uniqt SORTDIR=$BASEDIR/sorted HEADDIR=$BASEDIR/headdir OUTDIR=$BASEDIR/clean SCRIPTDIR=$BASEDIR/scripts SCRIPTNAME=$SCRIPTDIR/cleanup.sed MAKEBACKUP=Y COMPRESSBACKUP=N RMORIGINAL=N LISTONLY=N #cd $BASEDIR grep -hi "A HREF=" $INDIR/* > $GREPDIR/grepped.out sort -f $GREPDIR/grepped.out > $SORTDIR/sorted.out uniq -i -u $SORTDIR/sorted.out > $UNIQDIR/uniq.out sed -f /home/mobile/bookmarks/scripts/cleanup.sed $UNIQDIR/uniq.out > $HEADDIR/out.out #cat $HEADDIR/heads.html > $OUTDIR/clean-bookmarks.html #cat $HEADDIR/out.out >> $OUTDIR/clean-bookmarks.html #cat $HEADDIR/tails.html >> $OUTDIR/clean-bookmarks.html ERRESULT=$? echo " processed. Error == " $ERRRESULT ===END=== -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org