Save Evolution-Contacts as separate vcf with file-names as contact-names

Save Evolution-Contacts as separate vcf

#!/bin/bash


# require syncevolution
# on ubuntu run following commands
# sudo add-apt-repository deb http://downloads.syncevolution.org/apt stable main
# sudo apt-get update
# sudo apt-get install syncevolution-evolution
# askubuntu question: http://askubuntu.com/questions/265083/how-to-export-save-evolution-contacts-as-seperate-vcf-files




mkdir ~/Desktop/allcontacts/
cd ~/Desktop/allcontacts/

syncevolution --print-items backend=evolution-contacts database=Personal >database
cat database | while read line
do
 passid=`echo $line | awk -F: '{print $1}'`
 name=`echo $line | awk -F\  '{print $2"-"$NF}'`
 syncevolution --export allcontacts/"$name".vcf backend=evolution-contacts database=Personal --luids "$passid"
done