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.

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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

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