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I wanted to export the addresses from my Linux email programme ‘Evolution’ into a format that could be used elsewhere. I wanted to use them into my Gmail account. I searched for a solution and came across incredibly complicated solutions that did not appeal to me.

I discovered one site where some very clever whiz had written a long script in Perl. The instruction was to save the Evolution contacts to Vcard format then use the script to convert the lot to the csv format.

Then I discovered a simple and elegant solution. Simply past the following into a terminal ‘/usr/lib/evolution/2.24/evolution-addressbook-export –format=csv > contacts.csv’

You will then find a file called ‘contacts.csv ‘ in your home folder which most programmes can import, including Gmail.

Thanks to Ryan’s Scraps for this information.