Hi,
I have a bookmark-file from opera6.11 that contains a lot of duplicate
entries.
I would like to be able to remove all duplicate entries without
destroying the structure of the file.
I have tried this with a set of scripts that converted the file into a
format that could be sent through 'uniq' but somewhere the structure got
mangled up and all my folder-settings were lost.
An opera bookmark file has the fillowing syntax:
--begin-of-file--
Opera Hotlist version 2.0
Options: encoding = utf8, version=3
#FOLDER
NAME=software
CREATED=1025797561
ORDER=0
#URL
NAME=Arachnophilia Home Page
URL=http://www.arachnoid.com/arachnophilia/
CREATED=976878001
VISITED=1025962454
ORDER=0
-
#FOLDER
...
-
--end-of-file
The lines at the top can be easily copied should they get lost, they're
not much of a concern to me. But all '#FOLDER' blocks and all empty
lines and lines containing a single '-' should be preserved.
The values of 'CREATED' and 'VISITED' can be ignored for the comparison
and the value of 'ORDER' should be reset to 'ORDER='. (This way Opera
will regenerate the value of ORDER when the file is loaded)
An additional problem I discovered yesterday is that Murphy's law
applies even to Opera's bookmark file... The bookmarks are sorted
alphabetically, but only on name, so I found some blocks like:
NAME=tripod
URL=http://www.tripod.com
...
NAME=tripod
URL=http://www.tripod.lycos.com
...
NAME=tripod
URL=http://www.tripod.com
...
NAME=tripod
URL=http://www.tripod.lycos.com
...
So the script would have to look back 2 blocks...
So the script should be able to read several lines into a couple of
variables and modify and compare those variables to determine which
lines can be deleted...
Any suggestions?
TIA
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