convert-linux-desktop-files-to-osx-webloc-files.sh

#!/bin/bash

# A script which can be useful if you have a large collection of Ubuntu Linux "desktop" files pointing to web links (URLs),
# and you want to convert these to "webloc" files which can be used on Apple OSX.
#
# How to use:
#
# - open a terminal on your Ubuntu Linux machine, navigate to your ~/desktop folder (or wherever you have your ".desktop"
#   files stored), and make a copy of the files/directories/directory tree. I do it with "tar", for instance:
# 
#   tar cvfz my_desktop_files.tar.gz ~/desktop 
# 
# - copy the tar.gz file to your OSX machine
# 
# - open a terminal on your OSX machine, create a new directory, and unpack the tarball there:
#   tar xvfz my_desktop_files.tar.gz 
#
# - from the root of the newly created directory, run this shell script. This will convert all of the ".desktop" files
#   containing URLs to OSX-style ".webloc" files (it does this in all of the subdirectories too). The ".desktop" files are
#   not deleted but renamed.
# 
# Modified from:
# http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/237391/google-chrome-on-osx-will-not-open-desktop-files-created-in-ubuntu

f="$1"
dir=$(dirname "$f")
file=$(basename "$f")
bak="$dir/_bak"

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

#echo "dir: $dir"
#echo "file: $file"
#echo "bak: $bak"

url="$(awk -F '=' '/^URL=/{print $2}' "$f")"

if [[ -z $url ]]; then
    url="$(awk -F ' ' '/new-window/{print $3}' "${f}.processed")"
fi

if [[ ! -z $url ]]; then
    cat <<EOF >"${f%.*}.webloc"
    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
    <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
    <plist version="1.0">
    <dict>
        <key>URL</key>
        <string>$url</string>
    </dict>
    </plist>
EOF

mv "$f" "$bak"

else
    echo "  No URL found in $f file."
fi