Contacts cli
Query macOS contacts from the command line
**contacts cli** is a Query macOS contacts from the command line The project is written primarily in Swift, distributed under the MIT License license, first published in 2015. Key topics include: command-line, contacts, macos, mutt, osx.
Latest release: 1.1.1— Patch CoreData logging bug
August 13, 2017View Changelog →
contacts-cli
A simple script for querying contacts from the command line.
Usage:
sh$ contacts query NAME EMAIL query@example.com First Last
Installation
shbrew install keith/formulae/contacts-cli
OR
shmake install
mutt integration
Somewhere in your muttrc:
set query_command="contacts '%s'"
bind editor <Tab> complete-query
Notes
- This is a simplified replacement for the unmaintained
contacts - This is distributed as a compiled executable rather than a swift
script to help with swift compatibility during new releases. - If you have trouble running the script inside tmux see this
issue
Contributors
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