On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 11:06:34PM -0400, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > * Peter P. <peterpar...@fastmail.com> [10-15-15 18:28]: > > * Patrick Shanahan <p...@opensuse.org> [2015-10-15 18:04]: > > > * Peter P. <peterpar...@fastmail.com> [10-15-15 16:30]: > > > > Hi list, > > > > > > > > please excuse me if this is slightly offtopic, nevertheless this seems a > > > > propoer community to ask. > > > > > > > > Does anyone know if/how I can export an abook data file to a format that > > > > can be merged with lbdb's m_inmail.list file? > > > > > > lbdb can read abook, /usr/lib64/lbdb/m_abook > > > > > > I believe if configured that it will automatically include abook addresses > > > and will provide them when queried. > > > > Thank you, this is what I am already doing successfully. I would just > > like to uninstall abook altogether (I am not using it really) and rely > > only on lbdb, hence I would like to import/merge abook's datafile into > > ~/.lbdb/m_inmail.list > > lbdbq > m_inmail.list.new > > cat m_inmail.list > m_inmail.list.new
Shouldn't that be: cat m_inmail.list >> m_inmail.list.new otherwise it just overwrites previous output of previous instruction? > sort m_inmail.list.new | sort | uniq > m_inmail.list.new2 > > inspect m_inmail.list.new2 > > If satisfied, mv m_inmail.list m_inmail.list.old > mv m_inmail.list.new2 m_inmail.list > > When happy with new list, rm m_inmail.list.old -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." --- Malcolm X
