I had problems with the DOS batch file version of this utility so decided to replace it with a more robust version written in Python.
import os import time import datetime # Converting all url files in directory and sub-directories to a single html file tim = datetime.datetime.now() tim1 = tim.strftime("%d-%m-%Y") day = tim.strftime("%d") mth = tim.strftime("%m") year = tim.strftime("%Y") tim2 = tim.strftime("%H:%M:%S") nameOutput = "Links"+day+mth+year+".html" nameList = "Links"+day+mth+year+"_list.txt" print 'Generating list ' + nameOutput +' at '+tim2+' on '+tim1 dir_path = os.getcwd() listFile = open(nameList, 'w') with open(nameOutput, 'w') as outputFile: outputFile.write( '<h1>List Generated at '+tim2+' on ' + tim1 +'</h1>') for dirName, subDirs, files in os.walk(dir_path): outputFile.write( '<h3>'+dirName+'</h3>\n' ) outputFile.write( '<ol>\n' ) for name in files: if name.endswith(".url"): with open(dirName+'\\'+name) as fh: base, ext = os.path.splitext(name) for line in fh: if line.startswith("URL="): href = line.split("URL=",1)[1].rstrip('\n') #href.rstrip('\n') outputFile.write( '<li><a href="'+href+'" target="_blank">'+base+'</a></li>\n' ) listFile.write( href+'\n' ) break outputFile.write( '</ol>\n' ) listFile.close()
When invoked, this version will go through the directory and all sub-directories to generate an html file of all the URLs it finds. It will also create a list of the URLs in a separate file.