NAME

       pc_query - query the local address book

SYNOPSIS

       pc_query [OPTIONS] [SEARCHSTRING]

DESCRIPTION

       pc_query(1) prints contacts from a local address book, synchronized with remote CardDAV
       resources with pycardsyncer(1). Contact information is kept in the vCard format, one set
       of information, corresponding to a business card, is therefore often referred to as a
       card. pc_query(1) can also import and export vcards from/to the database. pc_query(1) is
       part of the pycarddav package.

OPTIONS

   BASIC STARTUP OPTIONS
       -a, --account=NAME
           Only use the account/resource NAME (this option can be used more than once).

       -c, --config=CONFIG
           Use the configuration file CONFIG, otherwise pc_query(1) will look in $HOME/.pycard/
           and $HOME/.config/pycard/ for files named pycard.conf.

       --debug
           This option enables debugging output.

       -h, --help
           Print a small help text and exit.

       -v, --version
           Print pc_query’s version number and exit.

   PRINTING OPTIONS
       These options can only be used with SEARCHSTRING and determine the output format of
       pc_query(1). Without any options pc_query(1) will print the name, telephone numbers and
       email addresses of all matching contact cards.

       -A
           Prints the whole card.

       -m
           Only prints names and email addresses, in a mutt friendly format (one line per email
           address).

       -t
           Only prints names and telephone numbers, analogue to -m (but in different sequence)

   FILE INPUT AND OUTPUT OPTIONS
       -b, --backup='FILE
           Backup the local db to BACKUP, if a SEARCHSTRING is present, only backup cards
           matching it.

       --delete
           Delete card matching SEARCHSTRING, if more than one matches, the user has to choose
           one card in an interactive user interface.

       -i, --import=FILE
           Import vCard from FILE or STDIN into the first specified (or default) account

   OTHER OPTIONS
       --where=MODE
           Decides which part of the contact cards are matched against the searchterm.  MODE is
           one of vcard, name (the structured name, as used in the vcard specification), fname
           (the formated name, meaning as is printed by pc_query) and allnames (allnames means
           search fname as well as name). While only search through the names might not find what
           you are looking for, it will considerably speed up your query.

AUTHOR

       pc_query was mostly written by Christian Geier, with a lot of help by others, see
       CONTRIBUTORS.txt in the pycarddav distribution.

RESOURCES

       Main web site: http://lostpackets.de/pycarddav/ Please report bugs via the contact
       information at the above web site or via github: http://github.com/geier/khal/.

SEE ALSO

       pycardsyncer(1), pycard-import(1)

COPYING

       Copyright (C) 2011-2013 Christian Geier and Contributors. pc_query and pycarddav are
       released under the terms of the Expat/MIT license, see the COPYING file distributed with
       pycarddav.

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