Any diff-like tools for comparing two .vcf (vcard) files?

ngoonee · 2010-04-10 05:31:31

Hi all,

I'm used to keeping contact information backups in .csv form, its just much simpler to parse with sed/awk etc., I have a small home-cooked script to move fields around between Evolution .csv files and JPilot .csv files such that they match (brittle, but worked for me).

Current Evolution doesn't seem to support csv output anymore, though, and to be honest the brittle-ness of having to hard-code in my scripts which column in the csv was what data always stung a bit. Evolution DOES output vcards, as does J-Pilot. Unfortunately, parsing vcards with sed/awk and the like promises to be real headache-inducing.

Basically, has anyone heard of tools for comparing .vcf files? Sort of like diff (which works line-by-line on text) but working element by element on .vcf files.

Daenyth · 2010-04-10 05:48:44

http://search.cpan.org/dist/Text-vCard/ … essbook.pm

Write one?

ngoonee · 2010-04-10 08:08:28

Daenyth wrote:

http://search.cpan.org/dist/Text-vCard/ … essbook.pm
Write one?

Was afraid the answer was gonna be that.

Moo-Crumpus · 2010-04-10 08:18:17

Dunno, doesn't meld handle that?

ngoonee · 2010-04-10 08:23:10

meld is just a nice front-end to diff. Works on a line-by-line basis. So if for example I had 3 contacts A, B, and C in two lists J and K.

If list J had A,B,C sequentially but list K had C,B,A, only one at max would match. With csv i can just run 'sort' beforehand, but not on vcf files.

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#1 2010-04-10 05:31:31

Any diff-like tools for comparing two .vcf (vcard) files?

#2 2010-04-10 05:48:44

Re: Any diff-like tools for comparing two .vcf (vcard) files?

#3 2010-04-10 08:08:28

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