initial code for dumping imessages in a reasonable format

dump-imessages/dump.sh

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+#!/bin/bash
+
+BACKUPS=""
+
+for B in ls ~/Library/Application\ Support/MobileSync/Backup/* ; do
+    BACKUPS+=" $(basename "$B")"
+done
+
+if [ -r ${HOME}/Documents/Secure/iphone-backup-password.sh ]; then
+    source "${HOME}/Documents/Secure/iphone-backup-password.sh"
+fi
+
+# expecting $IPHONE_BACKUP_PASSWORD to be set now. set it in your
+# environment if not, or put a script exporting it at that path above
+
+echo $BACKUPS
+
+WORKDIR="$TMPDIR/iphone-sms-dump.workd"
+if [ ! -d "$WORKDIR" ]; then
+    mkdir -p "$WORKDIR"
+fi
+
+for BID in $BACKUPS ; do
+    if [ ! -r $WORKDIR/sms-$BID.db ]; then
+        TD="$(mktemp -d -t bdir)/out"
+        echo -e "y\n$IPHONE_BACKUP_PASSWORD" |
+        python ./iphone-dataprotection/python_scripts/backup_tool.py \
+            "${HOME}/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/$BID" \
+            "$TD" 2>&1 > /dev/null # hush
+        echo "extracted to $TD"
+        mv "$TD/HomeDomain/Library/SMS/sms.db" ./sms-$BID.db
+        mv "$TD/MediaDomain/Library/SMS/Attachments" ./Attachments-$BID.d
+        rm -rf "$TD"
+    fi
+done
+
+for BID in $BACKUPS ; do
+    # now we process them...
+done