abook (1) Linux Manual Page

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 [at] whirlnet.co.uk>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

abook was written by Jaakko Heinonen <jheinonen [at] users.sourceforge.net>