Re: [tlug] Read my Firefox's cache contents on Linux

[Jim <jep200404@example.com>]

Dave M G <martin@example.com> wrote:

> Jim wrote:
> > try grep -ir '<data scrap>' <directory>. 

> This seems kind of promising. The results that come back are a little 
> unwieldy, but I am seeing fragments of relevant text.
> 
> What I can't figure out about this, though, is how the text is being 
> broken up. For example, I search for my name, "Dave", in the Cache, and 
> it returns a whole bunch of text. Some of which contains sentences with 
> my name in it, others which don't.

Yup. Short strings will match too much stuff. 
Try to think of longer, more unique strings to look for. 
That'll reduce the matches of junk.