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Can I extract all my Safari bookmarks with a shell script?

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Alright, this is pretty geeky, but is there a way I can grab all my Mac OS X Safari bookmarks using a shell script so I can manipulate the data? I’ve peeked into the bookmarks file and yow, it’s one hairy data file!

You’re right. That’s pretty darn geeky, especially when there are some very nice bookmark management tools available like BookmarkTool,
URLManager Pro (which looks like the best of the bunch), and
Bookit.

Further, if you use a little trick to turn on the Safari Debug menu, one of the options on that menu is … ta da! … Export Bookmarks.

How to enable the Safari Debug Menu…

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