GPS: March 1, 2004: I had many .URL files from Windows that stored URLs that I wanted to extract and make HTML from. So, I came up with this in ~5 minutes (Tcl is fun and easy).
#Get a pattern of URL=$foo\n where $foo is the URL we want.
proc fetch.url s {
set i [string first URL= $s]
if {$i < 0} {return ""}
string range $s [expr {$i + 4}] [string first \n $s $i]
}
proc main {argc argv} {
if {$argc < 2} {
return -code error "outfile infiles ..."
}
set out_fd [open [lindex $argv 0] w]
set s "<html>
<head>
<title>[lindex $argv 0]
</title>
</head>
<body>
"
foreach f [lrange $argv 1 end] {
set fd [open $f r]
set url [fetch.url [read $fd]]
close $fd
if {"" == $url} continue
append s "<a href=\"$url\">$url</a><br>\n"
}
append s "</body>"
puts $out_fd $s
}
main $::argc $::argvNow here is the url_to_html.tcl.plan file:
For output: open [lindex $argv 0] w open all files passed in [lrange $argv 1 end] and search for URL= via string first or regexp.