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09-19-2008

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Originally Posted by yodomino6

Ok, so I want to push out Firefox bookmarks to all the student accounts on my Mac server, but we all know how fun-loving Firefox profiles are, with their random czg6hi72.default profile names.

My question is how would I send the bookmarks.html file out to /Students/<username>/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/czg6hi72.default when the czg6hi72.default is going to be different for every account. Since that is the only folder in the Profiles folder, is there a way to say go into whichever folder is in the Profiles folder?

Please let me know if this doesn't make any sense.. even I'm getting confused!!
Thanks!

profile.ini holds the path

Code:

#! /bin/ksh
#
# /Students/<username>/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/czg6hi72.default

# path to bookmarks.html
#
bookmark=bkmk.html

for student in $(<list_of_students.txt)
do
  cd "/Students/${student}/Library/Application Support/FireFox"

  # Check for the default path in profile.ini
  # This should handle the IsRelative param as well
  #
  path=$(grep -Ei "^path" profile.ini)
  cd ${path}

  #backup the previous bookmarks
  #
  /bin/mv bookmarks.html bookmarks.html.$(date +%Y%m%d)
 
  # Deploy the new one
  #
  /bin/cp ${bookmark} .
done

Adapt this to suit your needs.

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