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How to get a mailto: URI out of abook(1)

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I store my address book with abook(1).

https://manpages.debian.org/bookworm/abook/abook.1.en.html

Let's say I want to introduce some contact in some field that accepts the usual name <email> format.

How can I ask abook(1) to produce that format?

The addressbook entry is the following:

[0]
name=Alejandro Colomar
email=alx@kernel.org,alx.manpages@gmail.com
nick=alx

(I hope it's a valid one.)

With --mutt-query, I can get something similar:

$ abook --mutt-query alx

alx@kernel.org	Alejandro Colomar	 
alx.manpages@gmail.com	Alejandro Colomar

Then, I can do some magic with custom formats, but I get a wrong email:

$ abook --mutt-query=alx --outformat=vcard \
  | abook --convert --infile=- --informat=vcard \
          --outformat=custom --outformatstr='{name} <{email}>';
Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org,alx.manpages@gmail.com>

The above pipeline works only for contacts with a single email. Is there a way to make it work for every contact?

EDIT:

This is what I'd expect:

$ abook --mutt-query=alx --outformat=mailto
Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>

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Canina‭ wrote 7 months ago

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When all else fails, there's always the brute force way.

I don't have abook installed, but based on the man page you linked it doesn't look like it supports an output format that will natively do what you want. However, based only on your one example, might this do the trick?

$ abook --mutt-query alx | grep -v '^$' | sed -E -e 's#^([^\t]+)\t+([^\t]+).*$#\2 <\1>,#g' -e 's#\t# #g' | tr -d $'\n' | sed -e 's#,$#\n#' -e 's#,#, #g'

This assumes fields are tab-delimated, flips the position of the first two (throwing away anything past that), joins the lines using ,, deletes the resultant , at the end of the final line, and pretty-prints it by rewriting from just a comma to a comma + space, converting tabs to single space as it goes.