contacts_export.pl - export contact information in various formats.
Copyright (C) 2001, 2002 Mark Veltzer; All rights reserved.
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MANIFEST: contacts_export.pl PROJECT: meta VERSION: 0.07
contacts_export.pl [options]
This script will read an XML/contacts file and will export it to a selection out of the known set of export formats. Formats which are planned to be supported: 1. kmail - a file that you could use so that you will have all your contact information in kmail. This is a text file which only has "John Doe john@doe.com\n" type entries. 2. evolution - a file that you could use so that you will have all your contact information in evolution. In essense this file is a Bekeley DB file and I use perl modules for manipulating Berkeley DB files to do that (create the file or add entries into your existing file). 3. gnokii - a file fit to be transferred using gnokii to a Nokia cellular phone (I still dont know what that format is and this is still not implemented). 4. html - a file fit to be put on a web server somewhere so that you will always have your contact information. Be sure to put this in a protected place (using a password) if you want to keep the information private. This is script is NOT responsible for such security matters!!!. 5. pdb palm pilot file - there are perl modules which can manipulate such files and I plan to use them to export my contacts to my palm pilot.
Current script only supports the first option (kmail).
Technical notes: Ths use of XML::Parser here is mandatory since if you do not supply your own parser the XML::XPath uses it's own which cannot do Aegis resolution and so this kills everything.
display help message
display pod options snipplet
display manual page
quit without doing anything
run a gtk ui to get the parameters
show license and exit
show copyright and exit
show description and exit
show history and exit
what contacts file to use ?
noisy or quiet ?
what output file to generate ?
read kmail and check before writing ?
sort output via set sorting ?
what config file to modify ?
no free arguments are allowed
None.
Name: Mark Veltzer Email: mailto:veltzer@cpan.org WWW: http://www.veltzer.org CPAN id: VELTZER
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Error(3), Meta::Baseline::Aegis(3), Meta::Ds::Set(3), Meta::IO::File(3), Meta::Lang::Xml::Xml(3), Meta::Template::Sub(3), Meta::Utils::Opts::Opts(3), Meta::Utils::Output(3), Meta::Utils::System(3), XML::Parser(3), XML::XPath(3), strict(3)
-make sure that kmail is not running when running this. use a general class which can make sure that a certain executable is not running.
-create filters too.
To install Meta::Init, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm Meta::Init
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install Meta::Init
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.