Leopard Only: Export Mail's RSS Feeds

If you use Apple Mail as your RSS reader, then you might have noticed that there's no easy way to backup your RSS URLs. Well, somebody over at MacOSXHints.com wrote a simple shell script which will export your feed URLs to the shell. The script is:

IFS=$'\n';for i in $(find ~/Library/Mail/RSS/ -name "Info.plist");do grep "http://" $i | sed "s/.*\(http[^<]*\).*/\1/";done

This can be easily modified to export the URLs to a file called "Mail Feeds" on your desktop:

IFS=$'\n';for i in $(find ~/Library/Mail/RSS/ -name "Info.plist");do grep "http://" $i | sed "s/.*\(http[^<]*\).*/\1/" >> ~/Desktop/Mail\ Feeds.txt;done

If the command line isn't for you, I've written a simple applescript which allows you to either export to the clipboard or to a file. You can download it by clicking on this link.


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