contrib/conv/old_to_new_bookmarks.sh

   1 #! /bin/sh
   2 # ELinks old bookmarks format to new format converter.
   3
   4 # WARNING: Close all ELinks sessions before running this script.
   5 # This script converts ELinks bookmarks file with '|' as separator to new
   6 # bookmarks format where separator is tab char. It saves old file to
   7 # ~/.links/bookmarks.with_pipes. --Zas
   8
   9 # Script by Stephane Chazelas :)
  10
  11 BMFILE=$HOME/.links/bookmarks
  12 if [ ! -r "$BMFILE" ]; then
  13         echo "$BMFILE does not exist or is not readable!" >&2
  14         exit 1
  15 fi
  16
  17 if [ -f "${BMFILE}.with_pipes" ]; then
  18         echo "It seems you already ran this script." >&2
  19         echo "Remove ${BMFILE}.with_pipes to force execution." >&2
  20         exit 1
  21 fi
  22
  23 if cp -f "$BMFILE" "${BMFILE}.with_pipes" \
  24      && tr '|' '\011' < ${BMFILE}.with_pipes > $BMFILE
  25 then
  26   echo "Bookmarks file converted."
  27   echo "Old file was saved as ${BMFILE}.with_pipes."
  28   echo "You may want to copy ~/.links/bookmarks to ~/.elinks/bookmarks now."
  29 else
  30   echo "Conversion failure" >&2
  31   exit 1
  32 fi