A while back, I started working on a utility to access the AddressBook database from the command line. I had a prototype, but had since stopped working on it.
This related hint encouraged me to finish it up and release it. So, here it is:
Contacts. Here's a sample of its output:
$ contacts
NAME PHONE IM EMAIL
Kim Jong Il +82-(001)385 License2KimJongill mrill@...
George W Bush 202-276-4300 Bush43 big.dubya@...
[...]
[
robg adds:I trimmed the email addresses to narrow the width a bit, but they do appear in full in the program's output. This program is also posted in the comments to the first article, but I felt that it was enough of an improvement in the methodology that it was worth posting on its own. The program includes, hopefully obviously, a means of searching for entries as well as simply displaying the Address Book's contents.]