Bulk editing of Evolution contacts

[Tony Arnold]

Martijn,

On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 15:02 +0100, Martn van de Streek wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Jan 2005, Tony Arnold wrote:
> 
> > This is probably not the right list for this question, but I'm not sure
> > where else to ask it.
> > 
> > I'm using Evolution on a Warty system and I have several hundred names
> > in my contacts. I need to edit a significant number of e-mail addresses
> > to change user at xxx.ac.uk to user at yyy.ac.uk; and I would rather avoid
> > using the GUI to do this!
> > 
> > Any ideas anyone?
> 
> Try exporting everything to vcards, then do some magic with sed, and
> import the vcards.

That worked really well! I had been looking for an Export menu item, but
selecting all the cards and then hitting 'Save as Vcard' did the job.

Regards,
Tony.
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