CLI Magic: Command-line contact management

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Oct 30, 2006 7:34 AM EDT
Linux.com; By Michael Stutz
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There's an ancient Unix practice of keeping a system-wide phone directory in /usr/share/ with one-line entries containing name, location, and number, and a shell script named something like phone or tel that calls grep to output lines that match whatever arguments you give. You can improve on that method to create a personal contact manager with surprising speed and power.

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