.URL files in Linux (Gnome)

Ishan jain January 26, 2010 09:10

I have a big archive of bookmarks in Windows .URL file format. Under gnome I couldn't find a way to open the link automatically out-of-the-box.

After searching for an hour or so, I found a script that could do it for me.

#!/bin/sh
firefox `cat "$1" | sed '/^URL/!d;s/^URL=//'`

Just copy it into a text file and set default handler to your file.