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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Fixing corrupted vcard files. Post 302247971 by Annihilannic on Thursday 16th of October 2008 06:57:15 PM
Old 10-16-2008
The ^M characters are carriage returns, which means this file is in Windows/DOS format, which uses Carriage Return and Line Feed characters at the end of each line. Unix and Unix-like operating systems just use Line Feed. My original solution was removing the Line Feed only, leaving you with a carriage return, which meant that when you catted the file it was returning to the beginning of the line at each CR and overwriting the previous line's text on your terminal.

Do VCF files need to be in DOS format? If so, use the following to only remove the ones as you originally described:

Code:
perl -pi.bak -e 'BEGIN { $/=""; } s/\r\n //g;' *.vcf

Otherwise, if you want to convert the files to Unix format in the process, add an extra search and replace to remove the CRs:

Code:
perl -pi.bak -e 'BEGIN { $/=""; } s/\r//g; s/\n //g;' *.vcf

I also removed the m from the s/// operators since it seems to be unnecessary when you have "slurped" the input data.
 

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LEARN ABOUT SUNOS

evolution-addressbook-export

evolution-addressbook-export(1) 				   User Commands				   evolution-addressbook-export(1)

NAME

       evolution-addressbook-export - export local address book from Ximian Evolution, Sun Microsystems Edition

SYNOPSIS

       evolution-addressbook-export  [--async] [--format=[vcard|csv]] [--help] [--list-addressbook-folders] [--output=output-file] [--size=number]
       [--usage] [--version]

DESCRIPTION

       Export the local address book to a file.

OPTIONS

       The following options are supported:

       --async		       Export in asynchronous mode. You can also use -a to specify this option.

       --format=[vcard|csv]    Specify the export format:  virtual card (vcard) or comma-separated value (csv).

       --help		       Display help text. You can also use -? to specify this option.

       --list-addressbook-foldeList the local address-book folders. You can also use -l to specify this option.

       --output=output-file    Specify the name of the output file to store the exported information. If no output file is specified, the exported
			       information is sent to standard output.

       --size=number	       Specify the number of cards in one output file in asychronous mode. The default value is 100.

       --usage		       Display brief usage text.

       --version	       Display version information.

EXAMPLES

       Example 1: Exporting Local Address Book in Asynchronous Mode and Vcard Format to contacts.vcf

       example% evolution-addressbook-export -a --format=vcard --output=contacts.vcf

EXIT STATUS

       The following exit values are returned:

       0	Application exited successfully

       1	Application exited with failure

FILES

       The following files are used by this application:

       /usr/bin/evolution-addressbook-export

	   Executable to export Evolution local address book

       $HOME/evolution

	   Per-user configuration files and local storage for Evolution

       $HOME/evolution/mail/account/folders

	   Temporary files for Evolution mail

       $HOME/evolution/sunone/account/folders

	   Temporary files for Evolution Sun ONE account

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Architecture		     |SPARC			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWevo			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |CSI			     |Enabled			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface stability	     |Standard			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |MT-Level		     |MT safe with Exceptions	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       Ximian Evolution Sun Microsystems Edition User Guide

       evolution(1), evolution-address-import(1)

NOTES

       Written by Steven Zhang, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2004.

SunOS 5.10							    15 Apr 2004 				   evolution-addressbook-export(1)
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