About aac
AWK address collection is a collection of some scripts to extract information from a loosely formatted address file. It is far from being complete, but for the moment it does enough for me. This are its features:
- Lookup addresses and phone numbers
- List category members
- List birthdays and ICQ UINs
- Automatically create an ~/.micqrc file with all ICQ users and a Emacs ~/diary plus a remind file with birthday reminders from the address database.
- Can be extended very easily
License
These scripts are in public domain. This means you can do with them whatever you want but there is NO WARRANTY, not even the implied warranty for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
Download
aac-0.6.4.tar.gz is the current
release.
A Debian package is also
available.
Installing
To install, download and extract the current release. See the included README file for information about the install targets. If you want to install everything, just type `make' followed by a `make install_all'. You can change some parameters by editing the system configuration file /etc/aac.conf by default, or your personal config at ~/.aac.
If you use Debian this is easier. Just download the Debian package (see above) and then type `dpkg -i $filename' as root to install the package.
Documentation
There is a man page for every command. aac(5) gives you an overview of how to write the data file.
Support
I don't exactly know how portable the awk scripts are. I've developed and tested these scripts on a Debian Woody box running mawk 1.3.3. Some script depend on GNU date to format the birthday date. If you find any problems on your machine, please mail me at <software@patrice.ch> and provide detailed information about your problem.
Feel free to mail me any bug reports, feature requests and kudos.