Many people keep notes and todo items in text files these days, for a myriad of reasons. Low file size, universal portability, and easy searching are just some of the advantages to keeping your information in plain text. But contact management? I always assumed it would just get too hard to deal with many contacts in one file, with multiple fields of information for each entry. Linux.Com has a great article, though, on managing all of your contacts in a single text file from the command line. Not only that, but the article outlines how to create some simple scripts to quickly add and retrieve information, all from a terminal window. I can see how adding some Zenity commands to these scripts might yield an effortless way to manage all your contact information.

What do you think about managing your contacts from the command line?

Full Story: CLI Magic: Command-line contact management

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