ical2text

Overview

Convert iCalendar format (.ics) to plain text. The output can be further processed at the command line, e.g.

# Display all meetings in December 2016
ical2text < calendar.ics | grep ^2016-12 | grep -i meeting | sort

Usage:

ical2text

Usage:
  ical2text [options]

Options:
  -f, --field-separator=STRING
    Field separator used to separate title, description, and location [default: @@].
  -l, --line-separator=STRING
    Line separator used to separate lines in description and location [default: ,,].
  -h, --help
    Print this help message.

Article: http://jakob.keramik-schoettl.de/blog/#sec-1-5

Build

Stack, Haskell's build tool, must be installed.

stack install docopt
stack install iCalendar
stack ghc ical2text.hs