* Chris Bannister <cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz> [2015-10-16 00:22]:
> 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

Thanks Patrick, Chris,

simple and elegant, what a nice solution! 
thanks again!

best,P

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