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Re:Show HN: ppl - The Command Line Address Book by telemachos on Thursday December 20, 2012 @07:24AM (#4947300)
There's abook[1], but yours seems different in design. (Main difference at a glance: Yours doesn't work on captured interface. So in that sense, yours is more Unixy.) One nice thing about abook is that it integrates nicely with mutt (which I see someone has already asked you about and you're working on).

One thing that might be nice would be an abook to ppl exporter. abook saves its information in a flat file at ~/.abook/addressbook with items like the following:

    # abook addressbook file
    
    [format]
    program=abook
    version=0.5.6
    
    
    [0]
    name=Someone Somewhere
    [email protected]
    
    [1]
    name=Another Person
    [email protected]
    nick=Another
    
    [3]
    name=Detailed Somebody
    [email protected]
    address=2222 Main Street
    city=New Somewhere
    state=NY
    zip=10011
    phone=212-111-1111
    nick=person
    notes=Birthday May 14th
It shouldn't be too hard to convert that, but I'm not sure (yet) about how you're storing information. (You mention vcard, but I'm not familiar with the details of that.)

[1]: http://abook.sourceforge.net/

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Re:Show HN: ppl - The Command Line Address Book by h2s on Thursday December 20, 2012 @09:24AM (#4947823)
You have described exactly the two things about abook that have always put me off using it and drove me to build this. The ncurses UI works well but isn't what I want, and the "Yet Another File Format" addressbook format isn't very interoperable.

You're right that an exporter shouldn't be hard to build. Might get on that once some bugs and other features are out of the way!

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Re:Show HN: ppl - The Command Line Address Book by telemachos on Thursday December 20, 2012 @09:27AM (#4947835)
One issue that will come up with any exporter: abook can handle multiple entries for each category, and (I think?) ppl can't yet. So, at the moment, I'm not sure there's a way to export without losing some information. Anyhow, I will definitely keep an eye on ppl. Looks like a very good start.
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Re:Show HN: ppl - The Command Line Address Book by tammer on Thursday December 20, 2012 @09:14AM (#4947765)
I entirely concur. abook is great, but I've always wanted something that worked a bit more like this project.

Great work!

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Re:Show HN: ppl - The Command Line Address Book by engtech on Thursday December 20, 2012 @03:31PM (#4949787)
awk script to convert abook to vcf vcard (found with a search, haven't tried it out)

http://blog.karssen.org/2010/05/24/script-that-converts-a-sq...

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