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Read vCard†’„–—\This is an example how to read vCards (.vcf) dropped from Address Book.  The interesting fields are found using sed and awk.

vCard files look like:

BEGIN:VCARD
VERSION:3.0
N:Fischer;Robert;;;
FN:Robert Fischer
ORG:tin-b Software;
EMAIL;type=HOME;type=pref:robert@tinb.de

Special cases like double e-mail addresses are not handled by this action!†’„„„NSMutableArray „„NSArray ”•’„„„AtomicProlog „„Atomic ”„ic’„–—Check Input Files†’’• „iiii  ’„–—vcf†’„–—''†’ †’„„„AtomicRunScript œ’„–—Strip NUL characters†’’„icccc     ’„–—	#!/bin/sh†’„„„NSMutableString–— # Sometimes vcf files contain NUL characters. 
# The tr command deletes (-d) those characters and
# writes the stripped lines into %output

tr -d "\0" < "$1"††’„¢œ’„–—Run Shell Script†’’Ÿ    ’¤’„¦—ý# sed -n: suppress echo of lines, only echo matching lines
# sed '.....': script
# '/^EMAIL/p': Print line starting with 'EMAIL'
# awk -F"[;:]": use ; and : as field delimiter
# '{print $3}': prints 3rd field
# %output: is replaced by file's name, which contains output of
# previous command

first=`sed -n '/^N:/p' %output | awk -F"[;:]" '{print $3}'`
last=`sed -n '/^N:/p' %output | awk -F"[;:]" '{print $2}'`
email=`sed -n '/^EMAIL/p' %output | awk -F"[;:]" '{print $4}'` 


echo $first $last "("$email")"
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