This script writes out individual contacts from a single vCard file (.vcf) into separate files.
The major difference and advantage to approaches based on cut or csplit is that files are named with the full name as file name.
Unless using -r, file names are "asciified" to ease the usage in multiple environments.
For example, accents are removed (thus à is mapped to a), and vowels with dieresis are expanded to vowel appended by e, (thus ä is mapped to ae).
Other characters might get mapped to some ASCII characters too.
The mapping algorithm is not well-defined (yet).
Characters not available in the Portable Filename Character Set are replaced by - (alphanumeric character and ., _ and -).
Usage
perl split_vcard -i input_file -o output_dir [OPTION]
On Unix platforms
./split_vcard -i input_file -o output_dir [OPTION]
Supported options are
-
-i: Input VCF filename -
-o: Output dir, where all individual vcf files goes -
-v: verbosity level -
-h: help -
-r: raw, does not transform names, recommended only on file systems that can represent all characters
The source code comes from https://code.google.com/archive/p/split-vcf-file/.