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#!/usr/bin/env python | |
import os.path | |
import sys | |
TEMPLATE = """[Desktop Entry] | |
Encoding=UTF-8 | |
Name=%(basename)s | |
Type=Link | |
URL=%(url)s | |
Icon=gnome-fs-bookmark | |
""" | |
def convert(f): | |
""" Takes a full filepath to a .URL file, converts it to a .desktop file | |
in the same directory """ | |
print "Converting %s" % f | |
(filepath, filename) = os.path.split(f) | |
(basename, extension) = os.path.splitext(filename) | |
with open(f) as urlfile: | |
lines = [line.strip() for line in urlfile.readlines()] | |
url = lines[1].split('URL=')[1] | |
dtfname = os.path.join(filepath, '%s.desktop' % basename) | |
with open(dtfname, 'w') as dtfile: | |
print "Writing %s" % dtfile.name | |
dtfile.write(TEMPLATE % locals()) | |
if __name__ == '__main__': | |
for arg in sys.argv[1:]: | |
if os.path.isfile(arg) and arg[-3:].lower() == 'url': | |
convert(arg) | |
else: | |
print "*** %s is not a URL file" % arg |
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