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ABOOK(1)		    General Commands Manual		      ABOOK(1)

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> [ --outformat <outputformat> ]
	      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.
	      Only a subset of the  below  <outputformat>  are	allowed:  mutt
	      (default), vcard and custom

       --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
	      -	vcard VCard addressbook

	      The following outputformats are supported:
	      -	abook abook native format
	      -	ldif ldif / Netscape addressbook (.4ld)
	      -	mutt mutt alias
	      -	html html document
	      -	pine pine addressbook
	      -	vcard 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
	      -	custom Custom output format, see below

       --outformatstr <string>
	      Only  used  if  --mutt-query  or	--convert  is  specified   and
	      --outformat=custom.   <string>   is  a  format  string  allowing
	      placeholders.
	      A	placeholder can	be any	of  the	 standard  fields  names  (see
	      abookrc(5)) and must be encapsulated by curly brackets.
	      The default value	is "{nick} ({name}): {mobile}"
	      If  <string>  starts  with  ! only entries whose all fields from
	      <string> are non-NULL are	included.

       --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>

				  2006-09-06			      ABOOK(1)

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