Utility Wanted

[Brett_Tabke]

Anyone know of a utility that will search a set of directories and extract all http urls found?

[minnapple]

Brett,

What type of directories are you referring to?

Minnapple

[Brett_Tabke]

eek. Hard drive - files.

[bartek]

"The program allows to analyze
files on your local computer and to extract URL, news and email addresses. Also you can apply  the filter and export obtained data..."

This one looks like a program out of a spammer toolbox, but it might do what you need:
[esalesbiz.com...]

[Brett_Tabke]

Bartek - nice to see you still hanging around here (thanks).

Looks like a nice util. Could I see something in freeware? In the perl isle?

[Air]

BT, if you have this module installed it should do it.

[search.cpan.org...]

[Brett_Tabke]

That will only (afaik) work with html and possibly text files. I want to dig through many flat files and junk/binary files.

[bartek]

>nice to see you still hanging around here...

Pleasure is all mine, I assure you. Wish I could spend more time here...

Now let's see...Probably overkill again, but try this:
ftp://ftp.mutt.org/pub/mutt/contrib/urlview-0.9.tar.gz

[bartek]

Another from your fave Perl isle... [xensei.com]

[Brett_Tabke]

Thanks. I came up with a solution that is based on just about all of the above.
I'd forgotten that I had a dos version of grep that came with a borland compiler. A little fine tuning of the output is needed, but I just let it walk through all the files filtering out "lines" with http's and then massage it with perl.