AWK address collection is a set of some scripts to extract information from a loosely formatted address file. It is far from being complete, but for the moment it does enough for me. This are its features:
- Lookup addresses and phone numbers
- List any field in the address file where the name matches a pattern
- List category members
- Automatically create other files, example:
~/.micqrc - this file contains the ICQ contacts for the client micq
~/diary - this is the calendar file of GNU Emacs. aac can automatically
enter the birthdays into this file reminders - Roaring Penguin Software maintains a great command line
calendar software. Again, aac can export the birthdays.
- Can be extended very easily
Installation
Type `make install' as root. This installs the following shell scripts in /usr/local/bin:
- address - get the address(es) of contacts
- mailaddr - get mail address(es)
- phone - get phone number(s)
If you type `make install_short' some additional commands are installed which are easier to type:
- add - link to address
- madd - link to mailaddr
To install some convert scripts type `make install_convert':
- convert_diary - Get all birthdays and add them to the ~/diary file which
is used by GNU Emacs.
- convert_remind - Get all birthdays and add them to the file ~/.reminders
in a format for reminder by Roaring Penguin Software.
- convert_micq - Get all ICQ UINs and add them to ~/.micqrc
- convert_mailrc - Extract mail addresses and convert them to the format of
~/.mailrc, which is used by some MUAs to look up aliases.
To install everything just type `make install_all'