On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 01:12:06PM +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote: >>>>>>> I wish a way to print the >>>>>>> Contacts (about 300) that I have stored in a directory, one per file.
Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>>>>> I think you just need to write a script in your favorite language to >>>>>> parse the files and format it to your liking then just print it out. Rodolfo: >>>>> Every file is like this: >>>>> >>>>> BEGIN:VCARD >>>>> VERSION:2.1 >>>>> N:;Oliver Hardy ;;; >>>>> TEL;CELL:3391234567 >>>>> TEL;VOICE;HOME:081123567 >>>>> FN:Oliver Hardy >>>>> END:VCARD >>>>> >>>>> , so the major problem would be sorting: how to sort whole items like >>>>> that? >>>> >>>> I want to cat all those file into one file and then sort the above >>>> entries, I >>>> don't know how. I also want to eliminate redundant symbols and words like >>>> `BEGIN:VCARD', `END:VCARD', `N:;', `VERSION:2.1' etc. Raj Kiran Grandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The following line will get you your contacts in a format you can import into > a spreadsheet. > > $ for file in /path/to/dir/*;do tail -n4 $file|head -n 3 \ > |cut -f 2 -d :|xargs echo $(basename $file);done > > That will put the filename, the two phone numbers and name in each line. You > might want to replace the spaces with comma's and save the file to some name > ending with .csv to ease import into a spreadsheet Thanks!, the file is imported into the spreadsheet. But the items are still not sorted, which remains the main problem (besides some coding problems). Any hint about that? Rodolfo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
