KHARD

NAME

khard - Console address book manager

SYNOPSIS

khard [-c CONFIG] [--debug] [--skip-unparsable] SUBCOMMAND â¦

khard -h | --help

khard -v | --version

DESCRIPTION

khard is an address book for the Unix command line. It can read, create, modify and delete vCard address book entries. khard only works with a local store of vCard files. It is intended to be used in conjunction with other programs like an email client, text editor, vdir synchronizer or VOIP client.

OPTIONS

-c CONFIG, --config CONFIG

configuration file (default: ˜/.config/khard/khard.conf)

--debug

output debugging information

-h, --help

show a help message and exit

--skip-unparsable

skip unparsable vcards when reading the address books

-v, --version

show programâs version number and exit

SUBCOMMANDS

The functionality of khard is divided into several subcommands. All of these have their own help text which can be seen with khard SUBCOMMAND --help.

Many subcommands accept search terms to limit the number of contacts they should work on, display or present for selection. The syntax is described in Search query syntax.

Listing subcommands

These subcommands list information of several contacts who match a search query.

list

list all (selected) contacts

birthdays

list birthdays (sorted by month and day)

	email		list email addresses
	phone		list phone numbers

postaddress

list postal addresses

filename

list filenames of all matching contacts

Detailed display

These subcommands display detailed information about one subcommand.

show

display detailed information about one contact, supported output formats are âprettyâ, âyamlâ and âvcardâ

Modifying subcommands

These subcommands are used to modify contacts.

	edit		edit the data of a contact, supported formats for editing are âyamlâ and âvcardâ
	new		create a new contact

add-email

Extract email address from the âFrom:â field of an email header and add to an existing contact or create a new one

	merge		merge two contacts
	copy		copy a contact to a different addressbook
	move		move a contact to a different addressbook

remove

remove a contact

Other subcommands

addressbooks

list all address books

template

print an empty yaml template

SEARCH QUERY SYNTAX

Search queries consist of one or more command line arguments. Each can be a simple search term or a search term for a specific field. The field name is separated from the search term by a colon (:) without any spaces.

Spaces in the field name have to be replaced with underscores.

The available fields are the same fields as in the YAML template with the exception of the five name components (first, last, prefix, suffix, additional). But there is the special pseudo field specifier name: which will search in any name related field (including nichnames and formatted names).

If a field name is not known the search term is interpreted as a plain search term and the string (including the colon) is looked up in any field of the contact.

CONFIGURATION

See khard.conf(5).

COPYRIGHT

2022, Eric Scheibler