vcard2pal

About

vcard2pal is a small awk script to convert vcard contacts into a calendar file for the pal calendar program.

Dependencies

vcard2pal is written in awk, which is probably installed on every existing unix system anyway, so there are no dependencies.

As of 2008-06-04, vcard2pal is included in the upstream cvs for pal. Please go there to download the latest version. Since 2008-06-02, vcard2pal is included in the unstable debian package for pal, so if you use debian/sid, you don't even need to do that.

Usage

Using vcard2pal is really simple, as it doesn't have any options…

You feed it some vcard formatted contacts either on stdin or give it the filenames of files which it should read and put the output of the script into a file which you then give to pal.

As vcard2pal needs no interactive input, you can also call it from cron or a makefile to always have an uptodate pal file generated from your contacts.

Copying

vcard2pal is released under the example BSD license given in http://www.debian.org/misc/bsd.license. The full legalese is:

Copyright (c) 2005, 2008 Uli Martens <uli@youam.net>
All rights reserved.

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Read: I'm not responsible for any missed birthdays and subsequent family feuds, nor anything else.

Author

vcard2pal was written by Uli Martens.