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>
- 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.
- --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
The following outputformats are supported:
- abook abook native format
- ldif ldif / Netscape addressbook (.4ld)
- mutt mutt alias
- html html document
- pine pine addressbook
- gcrd GnomeCard (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
- --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 <alan@whirlnet.co.uk>, for the
Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).
abook was written by Jaakko Heinonen
<jheinonen@users.sourceforge.net>
