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README.md

Open Chrome bookmarks in new tab

Procedure for editing all bookmarks in Chrome so that they open in a new tab:

  1. Open Bookmark Manager
  2. Vertical dots (upper right corner) > Export bookmarks
  3. cat bookmarks_*.html | update-urls.sh >bookmarks_new.html
  4. Delete all bookmarks in Chrome
  5. Vertical dots (upper right corner) > Import bookmarks > Select bookmarks_new.html

Note: the script correctly handles bookmarks that it already processed previously, so it's safe to run it on partially updated bookmarks.

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update-urls.sh
#!/bin/sh
sed '/javascript:window.open/!s/HREF="\([^"]*\)"/HREF="javascript:window.open(`\1`)"/'
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