Linux – cookies are stored in Iceweasel on Linux

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My question is similar to

Where are cookies of Firefox stored in windows?

but, I am using Iceweasel (on Linux) which, supposedly, is almost the same as Firefox.
Where are the cookies stored, how can they be read, etc? To find answers to such questions,

I looked for files that have the string "cookie" in their name. There are two such files in an inner subdirectory of my home directory, namely, cookies.sqlite and cookies.sqlite-journal. But the files can't be opened. Besides, I am not sure if these are really the files that uphold the cookies. Mind you, I also checked Edit > Preferences > Privacy. Still did not get what I am looking for.

I am hoping to get the location of the cookies, open them, possibly tamper with them, etc. Put simply, I am looking for any information that adds to my insight about cookies.

Anyone has any idea?

Best Answer

According to this website, Firefox cookies are stored in an SQLite database. Iceweasel is the same.

I found the database at:

/home/username/.mozilla/firefox/2bsy6m22.default/cookies.sqlite

I was able to open it using the Iceweasel extension SQLite Manager or using the SQLite3 application.

User defined functions

Typically bash functions are permanently stored in a bash start-up script.

System-wide start-up scripts: /etc/profile for login shells, and /etc/bashrc for interactive shells.
User define start-up scripts: ~/.bash_profile for login shells, and ~/.bashrc for interactive shells.
More information on interactive/login shells can be found in the bash man page in the INVOCATION section.

User defined shell functions are loaded dynamically in a hash (or lookup table) when bash starts. From the bash source file variable.c the definition for the table is:

/* The list of shell functions that the user has created, or that came from
   the environment. */
HASH_TABLE *shell_functions = (HASH_TABLE *)NULL;

User defined functions can be listed with the bash declare command, other shells still use typeset. In bash declare has superceded the typeset command.

declare -f

The functions exist in memory for the lifetime of the bash shell.

Shell defined (builtin) functions

These are common functions such as echo, printf, cd and :. They are compiled into a library which is linked into the bash executable. Building the definitions into the executable saves time compared to loading an external definition. Definitions for these functions (held in .def source files which are parsed into C source) are held in the builtins directory of bash source.

A useful aside: for information on a shell builtin command use help <command>. e.g.

help                # list all builtins
help declare        # info and options for declare
help -m declare     # gives man style information for declare

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