Mozilla Firefox profile (w/ bookmarks, history and addons) backup Bash script for Mac OS X

backup_firefox.sh

#!/bin/bash

#####
# Created by PMK
# https://github.com/PMK
#
# License: Public Domain
#
# Creates a tar archive of the current active profile of Mozilla Firefox.
# The profile contains sessions, addons, bookmarks and history.
#
# Usage: $ backup_script.sh TARGET
#####

TARGET=$1

if [ -z "$TARGET" ]; then
    TARGET='./'
fi

if [ ! -d "$TARGET" ]; then
    mkdir $TARGET
fi

# Get the profile id
PROFILE_ID=$(grep Path ~/Library/Application\ Support/Firefox/profiles.ini | sed 's/Path=Profiles\///g')

PROFILE_PATH=~/Library/Application\ Support/Firefox/Profiles/

BACKUP_FILE_NAME=$(date '+%Y%m%d%H%M')-$(PROFILE_ID).tar.gz


tar -zcf $BACKUP_FILE_NAME $PROFILE_PATH/$PROFILE_ID
mv $BACKUP_FILE_NAME $TARGET

echo 'Done!'