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Old 12-31-2019
Thanks @RudiC
I already thought that I would have a brain dislocation. Smilie
something like It turned out on my system in this way.
Code:
awk '/FORMAT/ {system("lsof -p $(pidof awk); mv -vn "FILENAME" "$10"; lsof -p $(pidof awk)")}' fi*

my regards
 

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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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