abook - text-based address book program

NAME  SYNOPSIS  DESCRIPTION  OPTIONS  COMMANDS DURING USE  SEE ALSO  AUTHOR 

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NAME

abook − text−based address book program

SYNOPSIS

abook [ OPTION ]

DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the abook program. This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.

abook is a text-based address book program. It contains Name, Email, Address and various Phone fields. It is designed for use with mutt, but can be equally useful on its own.

OPTIONS

−h −−help

Show usage.

−C −−config <filename>

Use an alternative configuration file (default is $HOME/.abook/abookrc).

−−datafile <filename>

Use an alternative addressbook file (default is $HOME/.abook/addressbook).

−−mutt−query <string> [ −−outformat <outputformat> ]

Make a query for mutt (search the addressbook for <string>).
The −−datafile option, as documented above, may be used BEFORE this option to search a different addressbook file.
Only a subset of the below <outputformat> are allowed: mutt (default), vcard and custom

−−convert [ −−informat <inputformat> ] [ −−infile <inputfile> ] [
−−outformat <outputformat> ] [ −−outfile <outputfile> ]

Converts <inputfile> in <inputformat> to <outputfile> in <outputformat> (defaults are abook, stdin, text and stdout).

The following inputformats are supported:
− abook abook native format
− ldif ldif / Netscape addressbook
− mutt mutt alias
− pine pine addressbook
− csv comma separated values
− palmcsv Palm comma separated values
− vcard VCard addressbook

The following outputformats are supported:
− abook abook native format
− ldif ldif / Netscape addressbook (.4ld)
− mutt mutt alias
− html html document
− pine pine addressbook
− vcard VCard addressbook
− csv comma separated values
− palmcsv Palm comma separated values
− elm elm alias
− text plain text
− spruce Spruce address book
− wl Wanderlust address book
− bsdcal BSD calendar
− custom Custom output format, see below

−−outformatstr <string>

Only used if −−mutt−query or −−convert is specified and −−outformat=custom. <string> is a format string allowing placeholders.
A placeholder can be any of the standard fields names (see abookrc(5)) and must be encapsulated by curly brackets.
The default value is "{nick} ({name}): {mobile}"
If <string> starts with ! only entries whose all fields from <string> are non−NULL are included.

−−add−email

Read an e−mail message from stdin and add the sender to the addressbook.

−−add−email−quiet

Same as −−add−email but doesn’t confirm adding.

−−formats

List available formats.

COMMANDS DURING USE

Press ’?’ during use to get a list of commands.

SEE ALSO

mutt(1), abookrc(5)

AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Alan Ford <[email protected]>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

abook was written by Jaakko Heinonen <[email protected]>

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