Re: Contacts printing

[Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com>]

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?
>>>>
>>>> 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 <grajkiran@gmail.com> 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