Is there any command or short-cut for saving evolution contacts as separate .vcf files rather than a list.vcf in Ubuntu 10.04?
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This can be easily achieved using syncevolution.
Step1:
Install latest version of syncevolution from repo:
sudo add-apt-repository deb stable main sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install syncevolution-evolution syncevolution has a --print-items command which shows each contact name & id for a perticular database (evolution contact list; default is Personal)
Step2:
To view all databases(evolution-conatct-list local or online) run this command in terminal:
syncevolution --print-databases Copy the database name.
Step3:
Now Run following command at teminal-prompt with the database name:
syncevolution --print-items backend=evolution-contacts database=Personal You can replace Personal with any other contact-list in evolution.
The output would be something like this:
pas-id-5006660000000D81: Tony Stark pas-id-5017A30900000670: Hockeye pas-id-51717EFD00000096: Hulk pas-id-5194ABA900000000: Syncevolution Step4:
Now export each contact as separate vcf file (pas-id would be names of the files).For Tony stark it would be:
syncevolution --export Tony-Stark.vcf backend=evolution-contacts database=Personal --luids pas-id-5006660000000D81 To export all contacts at the same time run without luids parameter:
syncevolution --export ~/Desktop/allcontacts/ backend=evolution-contacts database=Personal It will export all contacts in ~/Desktop/allcontacts directory.
I have craete a simple script which exoprt all contacts as file with their names(as firstnames-lastname.vcf).
#!/bin/bash mkdir ~/Desktop/allcontacts/ cd ~/Desktop/allcontacts/ syncevolution --print-items backend=evolution-contacts database=Personal >database cat database | while read line do passid=`echo $line | awk -F: '{print $1}'` name=`echo $line | awk -F\ '{print $2"-"$NF}'` syncevolution --export allcontacts/"$name".vcf backend=evolution-contacts database=Personal --luids "$passid" done Save the script in gedit as vcf-export. Then run:
chmod a+x vcf-export ./vcf-export 
