#! /bin/sh # ELinks old bookmarks format to new format converter. # WARNING: Close all ELinks sessions before running this script. # This script converts ELinks bookmarks file with '|' as separator to new # bookmarks format where separator is tab char. It saves old file to # ~/.links/bookmarks.with_pipes. --Zas # Script by Stephane Chazelas :) BMFILE=$HOME/.links/bookmarks if [ ! -r "$BMFILE" ]; then echo "$BMFILE does not exist or is not readable!" >&2 exit 1 fi if [ -f "${BMFILE}.with_pipes" ]; then echo "It seems you already ran this script." >&2 echo "Remove ${BMFILE}.with_pipes to force execution." >&2 exit 1 fi if cp -f "$BMFILE" "${BMFILE}.with_pipes" \ && tr '|' '\011' < ${BMFILE}.with_pipes > $BMFILE then echo "Bookmarks file converted." echo "Old file was saved as ${BMFILE}.with_pipes." echo "You may want to copy ~/.links/bookmarks to ~/.elinks/bookmarks now." else echo "Conversion failure" >&2 exit 1 fi
