KHARD(1)

NAME
khard - Console carddav client

SYNOPSIS

khard [-c CONFIG] [--debug] [--skip-unparsable] SUBCOMMAND ...

khard -h|--help

khard -v|--version

DESCRIPTION

Khard is an address book for the Linux command line. It can read, create, modify and delete carddav address book entries. Khard only works with a local store of VCARD files. It is intended to be used in conjunction with other programs like an email client, text editor, vdir synchronizer or VOIP client.

OPTIONS

-c CONFIG, --config CONFIG
    configuration file (default: ~/.config/khard/khard.conf)

--debug
    output debugging information

--skip-unparsable
    skip unparsable vcards when reading the address books

SUBCOMMANDS

The functionality of khard is divided into several subcommands. All of these have their own help text which can be seen with khard SUBCOMMAND --help.

  Listing subcommands

These subcommands list information of several contacts who match a search query.

list
    list all (selected) contacts

birthdays
    list birthdays (sorted by month and day)

email
    list email addresses

phone
    list phone numbers

postaddress
    list postal addresses

filename
    list filenames of all matching contacts

  Detailed display

These subcommands display detailed information about one subcommand.

details
    display detailed information about one contact

export
    export a contact to the custom yaml format that is also used for editing and creating contacts

  Modifying subcommands

These subcommands are used to modify contacts.

source
    edit the vcard file of a contact directly

new create a new contact

add-email
    Extract email address from the "From:" field of an email header and add to an existing contact or create a new one

merge
    merge two contacts

modify
    edit the data of a contact

copy
    copy a contact to a different addressbook

move
    move a contact to a different addressbook

remove
    remove a contact

  Other subcommands

addressbooks
    list all address books

CONFIGURATION

See khard.conf(5).

COPYRIGHT
2018, Eric Scheibler