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praveenchand	2010-06-27 , 18:32
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I have seen this feature on samsung I9000. Is there any way to search contacts using contact number on N900? It would be great if somebody could implement this feature.

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	pelago	2010-06-28 , 09:10
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You mean if you can remember part of the number and type that in, it will show all contacts that match that? I guess that would be a nice feature.

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itsANDREW	2010-06-28 , 09:23
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there's been a lot of situations to where this could've been useful for me as well... particularly when someone receives a call and asks me if i know the person, or i need to check to see if the phone numbers already logged in contacts.

not a necessity for me personally, but it'd definitely make life easier

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	chemist	2010-06-28 , 11:20
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That a proper search function is missing is... I just do not understand!
If you backup your contact's you can grep it with an xterminal.

Code:

grep -r $part_of_number $path_to_backup

output looks something like this

Code:

$path_to_backup/$contact's_name.vcf :TEL:TYPE=$type : $full_number

as matching file with the full number and as the file name is the contact's name you will find your way.

Also a grep on your abook databases like this

Code:

grep -r -B6 $part_of_number ~/.osso-abook/db/

gives you 6 lines before a number and if you don't have to many numbers with a contact you will see the name within output, this grep includes call-logs (to grep only the abook you have to point directly to it).

further extending to get a good matching output with having it put for a script

Code:

#!/bin/sh
grep -C10 $1 ~/.osso-abook/db/addressbook.db | grep -e N: -e TEL|grep -v VERSION

this gives you 10 lines in each direction of that number to grep the name as it may be before or after that TEL line, to have entries separated I left the BEGIN:VCARD in the output.
USAGE:

Code:

./search_num 135314

I am looking into it to have it display the full vCard later today.

Just found a number in the call-logs I don't have in the abook anymore, with full details.

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little_beat	2010-06-28 , 11:53
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This suggestion has been mentioned by Marco Barisione, the guy who's written first ever contacts app plugin to merge contacts. He's going to implement full-text search if/when he has time, but if you're willing to do this - I suggest to contact him for coordination so that you won't end up with 2 similar apps. I'm sure contacts plugin is the best way to do this anyway.

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	chemist	2010-06-28 , 13:55
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Code:

awk 'BEGIN{FS=":"} /^TEL/{print $2} /^FN/{print $2} /END:/{print "\n"}' /home/user/.osso-abook/db/addressbook.db|awk 'BEGIN { RS="\n\n"; FS="\n"; PATTERN="pattern" } { if ( $0 ~ PATTERN ) print $0; }' $0; }'

Thats the awk one-liner for displaying all matching contacts with name and all numbers available, for some reason I get the same displayed x times while x = #_of_phone-numbers. (Well proof of concept...just a few lines are needed to do this in a shell script properly)

As this is on its way I keep my hands off till asked for it.

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