Part 2: A CRM on the command-line with abook, awk, grep and cut
A while ago, I posted https://yctct.com/abook-crm where I described how I use abook with tags, awk and grep altogether as a CRM.
The way I go about this has evolved a bit. I still use the tags with abook, but I no longer have a set script I use to query abook’s file.
I use the following commands, which I recall from history and tweak depending on what I need.
To output a list of URLs of contacts that match a specific tag, say, ‘agency’, I run:
$ awk 'BEGIN {RS = ""; FS = "\n"}/'"tag=agency"'/' ~/.abook/addressbook | grep url | cut -d '=' -f2 To output a list of names of contacts that match a tag, say, ‘developer’, I use:
$ awk 'BEGIN {RS = ""; FS = "\n"}/'"tag=developer"'/' ~/.abook/addressbook | grep name | cut -d '=' -f2 When the output is too long, I pipe it to less.
To add contacts I’ve added to .mail_aliases to abook, I merge the aliases’ file into abook, and then, clear duplicates with U in abook.
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