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Extract URL from Safari .webloc

bash one-liner

plutil -p example.webloc | sed -En 's/.*"(.*)"$/\1/p'

Convert all .webloc files in directory to .url files

webloc2url.sh - Converts .webloc (Mac) to .url (Windows) files.

https://github.com/flagsoft/webloc2url/

Safari will also open .url files, so I use that as my default.

Open .webloc and .url Linux

url-open.sh - open links contained in .URL and .webloc files in your default browser

https://gist.github.com/apfelchips/001b4ffb22c0578220595623f5546107

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