Convert a folder of .URL files to a bookmarks.html file that can be imported into a browser

convert_url_files_to_bookmarks.sh

#!/bin/bash
#
# Run this script in a folder full of ".url" files, and pipe output to an HTML file.
# Example: ./convert_url_files_to_bookmarks.sh > bookmarks.html

echo "<!DOCTYPE NETSCAPE-Bookmark-file-1>"
echo '<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=UTF-8">'
echo '<TITLE>Bookmarks</TITLE>'
echo '<H1>Bookmarks</H1>'
echo '<DL><p>'
ls -1 *.url |
  sed 's/.url//' |
  while read L; do
    echo -n '    <DT><A HREF="';
    cat "$L.url" | grep URL | grep -v BASEURL | sed 's/URL=//' | tr -d '\r'| tr -d '\n'; echo '">'"$L"'</A>';
  done
echo "</DL><p>"

is there an opposite way like html to url

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@echo off

rem Set the input and output file paths
set input_dir=C:\Documents and Settings\Admin\Favorites
set output_file=C:\output\bookmarks.html

rem Initialize the bookmarks file with the opening tags
echo ^ > %output_file%
echo ^<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=UTF-8"^> >> %output_file%
echo ^<TITLE^>Bookmarks^</TITLE^> >> %output_file%
echo ^<H1^>Bookmarks^</H1^> >> %output_file%
echo ^

<p^> >> %output_file%

rem Iterate through the input files and add each URL as a bookmark
for /f "tokens=*" %%f in ('dir /b %input_dir%*.url') do (
set url=
for /f "tokens=2 delims==" %%a in (%%f) do set url=%%a
echo ^<DT^><A HREF="%url%"^>%%f^</A^> >> %output_file%
)

rem Add the closing tags to the bookmarks file
echo ^

<p^> >> %output_file%

echo Conversion complete! Check %output_file% for the generated bookmarks file.

@gowhitehat Why is that any better?

Can someone derive the folder recursive version of convert_url_files_to_bookmarks.sh which uses the folder structure as html headings...?
Thank you.