khard

A console carddav client for address book management.

Runs as khard|macOS, Linux, Windows|khard.readthedocs.io

Command form

ai-draft · 1 task · 7 fields

List contacts from your address books, optionally filtered by search terms and sorted. Showing, creating, editing and the other subcommands are left out.

Opens the form; the finished command lands at your prompt, unrun

Run in Otty

otty gui khard

`khard list`

List contacts

List contactsExample values, fixed in this page — nothing here reaches a terminal

Basic

Search terms*

string

Address books

string

TasksEach one presets the form for one job

Find contacts

search_termsaddressbook

ParametersOnly these flags are editable in the form

Search terms

Leave empty to list everything.
string · positional 0 · repeatable

Address books

Comma separated names.
string

--addressbook-a

Sort by

enum

--sort-sfirst_namelast_nameformatted_name

Display names by

enum

--display-dfirst_namelast_nameformatted_name

Group by address book

boolean

--group-by-addressbook-g

Reverse order

boolean

--reverse-r

Machine readable output

boolean

--parsable-p

SourcesEvery flag above is checked against these

src

"-a", "--addressbook" Specify one or several comma separated address book names to narrow the list of contacts "-d", "--display", choices=("first_name", "last_name", "formatted_name") "-g", "--group-by-addressbook" Group contact table by address book "-r", "--reverse" Reverse order of contact table "-s", "--sort", choices=("first_name", "last_name", "form…

helpmaster 2026-10

github.com

src

helpmaster 2026-10

github.com

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