Re: Contacts printing

["Douglas A. Tutty" <dtutty@porchlight.ca>]

On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 03:47:01PM +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" <dtutty@porchlight.ca> 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?
> 
> "Douglas A. Tutty" <dtutty@porchlight.ca> writes:
> 
> >> > So, assume that anything is possible:
> >> >
> >> > 1.	What do you want to do?
> 
> Rodolfo:
>  
> >> 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.
> 
> Douglas:
> >> > 2.	In what language do you want to do it?
> Rodolfo:
> >> This is the same for me.
> Douglas:
> > What I mean is, in which programming language(s) are you proficient?
> None.

Then, as I see it, you have two choices:

1.	Take the opportunity to learn Python.

2.	Cat the files together from the command line.  

	Easiest way is to put them all in one directory (with nothing
	else) and issue:

$ cat * > contacts.txt

	You now have everything in one file.

	Then put it in an editor and start manual sorting.


Doug.