Firefox opening links ... 2

[dbeez]

I'm trying to feed a number of links into the firefox browser and have them all open up as different tags, rather than different processes.

Is this possible ??

At the moment I can't seem to open up even one link in firefox

firefox < [URL unfurl="true"]www.website.com[/URL]

I've had a look at the man page and it doesn't seem to suggest anything about doing this, which seems kinda strange.

 

[dbeez]

Hi phv,

no luck I'm afraid.
Even this doesn't work

firefox -remote "openURL([URL unfurl="true"]http://www.tek-tips.com,new_tab)"[/URL]

... the funny thing is that it worked last night though ???

 

[PHV]

I don't know firefox but perhaps you should have firefox already launched for the code to work ?

Hope This Helps, PH.
Want to get great answers to your Tek-Tips questions? Have a look at FAQ219-2884 or FAQ181-2886

 

[dbeez]

Ya, you do ... put I have it launched already and it still doesn't work ????

Ah well ... it's probably an Xorg bug ...

 

[feherke]

Hi

No is a tiredness bug. Somewhen the dash in [tt]new-tab[/tt] was changed to underscore and we all continued to just copy&paste it like that from previous posts.

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[dbeez]

Oops ... I think that was me ... thanks feherke.
Unforutnately though it doesn't work either way and just gives me a

root@ubuntu:/home/babo/Desktop/spider_proj # mozilla -remote "openURL([URL unfurl="true"]http://www.example.com,new-tab)"[/URL]

(firefox-bin:8303): Gdk-WARNING **: cannot set locale modifiers
Error: No running window found

it's not even parsing the new-tab bit though cause even when I just put in gibberish I still get the same error

root@ubuntu:/home/babo/Desktop/spider_proj # firefox -remote "dkjf "

(firefox-bin:8378): Gdk-WARNING **: cannot set locale modifiers
Error: No running window found

... and yet it did work ... once ?????

PS: just out of curiosity what timezone are you lot in ???
I'm in Daegu, Korea and the time is 12:50 noontime

 

[dbeez]

This is kinda strange

I input

root@ubuntu:/home/babo/Desktop/spider_proj # firefox -remote "openFile(spider)"

(firefox-bin:13053): Gdk-WARNING **: cannot set locale modifiers
Error: No running window found

... and it automatically opens up some kinda spiderman webpage off the web. I then close the window and run the command again and I get the usual Error: No running window found.

 

[dbeez]

Ok, I got some help over on the mozilla IRC. I got a moz-remote program that works fine as a substitution.

http://wp.netscape.com/newsref/std/remote.c

But I have one remaining problem with the script. It works as is

#!/bin/sh

if [ $# -eq 0 ]
then
        echo " For the \"$0\" script, you need a search string"
        exit 0
fi

find . -type f | while read f
 do grep -q "$1" "$f" && echo "$f" | sed 's_^./_[URL unfurl="true"]http://_'[/URL]
 done | tee "$1".links |
 while read f
 do ./moz-remote -remote "openURL(\"$f\",new-tab)"
done

... that doesn't work for some reason. It's the $f in the ./moz-remote -remote "openURL(\"$f\",new-tab)" that is the problem.

if I replace the $f with

http://www.website.com,

it works fine. But when it feeds in from the "$1".links file it doesn't work. The url's in $1.links are perfectly formed though ... ???

 

[feherke]

Hi

[red]root[/red]@ubuntu:/home/babo/Desktop/spider_proj # mozilla -remote "openURL([ignore]

http://www.example.com

[/ignore],new-tab)"

A program which has to communicate with the X windows system must be runned by a user which has a running X session. Did you started the window manager as root ? ( This is highly unrecommended. ) Can you start any other program which has graphical interface ( [tt]xterm[/tt], [tt]xclock[/tt], [tt]xmms[/tt]... ) ?

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[Annihilannic]

I'd stick in an echo opening $f before the moz-remote command just to make sure you're getting what you're expecting in that variable?

Annihilannic.

 

[dbeez]

A program which has to communicate with the X windows system must be runned by a user which has a running X session. Did you started the window manager as root ? ( This is highly unrecommended. ) Can you start any other program which has graphical interface ( xterm, xclock, xmms... ) ?

... I can open xmms no problem. Plus the openURL command did work once or twice. But only once or twice and not regularly.

I'd stick in an echo opening $f before the moz-remote command just to make sure you're getting what you're expecting in that variable?

why is this ??
why can't I find any info on the 'opening' command.

also guys I want to run down through a directory and change any file names that contain unix incompatible characters (namely into their hex equivalent and copy over them so that the file contains just my unix safe file names...
so far I've got

#!/bin/sh

find . -type f | while [ -f "$f" ]
do
sed -i 's/;/%3B/' "$f"
done

... and various manifestations thereof ...
... guess what ? it doesn't work ... HELP

 

[Annihilannic]

There is no "opening" command, it's just text to echo... for example if $f was set to "fred" it would say:

[tt]opening fred[/tt]

on your console. It's just a way of debugging to make sure that $f contains the values that you expect.

In your code to change filenames you never actually set $f to any value. Also there is no need to do a [ -f $f] because find -type f will only give you files anyway.

Your second question was a little confusing, I'm presuming that you only want to change the characters in file names, not the file contents? Here is a solution that will do it for the characters ', & and ;. Take out the echo when you are happy that it will do what you want (otherwise it will do nothing except print the commands).

#!/bin/sh

find . -type f -name '*[;&'\'']*' | while read f
do
    echo mv $f `echo $f | sed '
        s/&/%26/
        s/'\''/%27/
        s/;/%3B/
    '`
done

Annihilannic.