On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 08:51:25PM +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > 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? Sorted how? -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal |mysite.verizon.net/kevin.mark/| | `. `' Operating System | go to counter.li.org and | | `- http://www.debian.org/ | be counted! #238656 | | my keyserver: subkeys.pgp.net | my NPO: cfsg.org | |join the new debian-community.org to help Debian! | |_______ Unless I ask to be CCd, assume I am subscribed _______|
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