Re: gnomecard

["Billie H. Cleek" <cleek csc smsu edu>]

Thanks. 

On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Anthony E . Greene wrote:

> On Thu, 04 Jan 2001 01:05:14 Billie H. Cleek wrote:
> >This works great if you're only doing a few files, but for anyone that
> >tries to import..say 100 vCard file then it's no longer an efficient
> >solution..hence my questions about the directory.
> 
> If you have lots of VCF files, just put them all into one big VCF file:
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> for vcard in `ls *.vcf` ; do
>  cat $vcard >> bigfile.vcf
>  echo "" >> bigfile.vcf
> done
> 
> If you have lots of flat files, then put them all into a single directory
> and convert them all like this:
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> for contactfile in `ls *` ; do
>   cat $contactfile | gawk -f gawkscript >> ~/bigfile.vcf
> done
> 
> Where "gawkscript" is your custom version of the gawk script I posted. In
> either case you can then append all of these at once from within GnomeCard.
> 
> Plain text data files are great...
> 
> Tony
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