How many browser bookmarks?

[AlexK]

Compared to most people, I have very few bookmarks. Mainly for programming and some ftp sites. Only 42 so far.

[fingal]

I bookmark sites like a little thing possessed. Far too many to count and given my appalling mathematical ability, I doubt I would be able to count that high anyway.

Maybe there's a bash script that could do it for me . . . . .

Matty the Damned

First, you need your bookmarks.html file. Either locate it within ~/.mozilla , or you can export your bookmarks to an html file. Then run a command like this:

egrep -c "<[aA] [hH][rR][eE][fF]=" bookmarks.html

The number is prints will be the number of bookmarks you have. In my earlier post my grep command was a little different, but this one should be more reliable.

Hey thanks! That's really useful.

[petergriffin]

I have hardly any right now; I have the file backed up on disc from a few weeks ago, but I rarely use them anyway.

[celticgeek]

An update: 722 as of: 11032005CE0732MST

As I said, far too many, but I do visit them all periodically.

Most of these are sites that I came across when searching on some topic or other that I was (and usually still am) interested in. Linux, UNIX, Scottish/Celtic history and mythology, humorous sites, and so forth. Far too many,

[fingal]

An update: 722 as of: 11032005CE0732MST

As I said, far too many, but I do visit them all periodically.

Most of these are sites that I came across when searching on some topic or other that I was (and usually still am) interested in. Linux, UNIX, Scottish/Celtic history and mythology, humorous sites, and so forth. Far too many,

That's hugh! You're on your way to 1,000

[kimi]

I got about 200 bookmarks, mostly computer related