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I have had the need on occasion to quickly and easily obfuscate the contents of a simple shell script. Shc is a great utility to do just that.
Man page is available here, and you can download the latest source here, and I have used this on FreeBSD, Linux and HP-UX.

I recently had a need to migrate all of my Outlook Contacts over to Apple Mail/Address Book and Microsoft Entourage for Mac. Since the Outlook PST format is proprietary (direct export/import from Outlook to Entourage is not supported), I needed to find a way to do this. I decided I had 3 options:

1.) I could spend $10 and buy Outlook2Mac.

2.) I could setup an IMAP server on a Linux box and copy all of my contacts to the IMAP server and import from there to Mac email programs, which would populate the Apple Address Book.

3.) I could export my contacts into vCard format (*.vcf) and import into Mac.

Since I was planning to later convert the physical machine to VMware, I chose option 3.

To do this, I found a great VBscript online here (thanks to Dave Moats). I created a new folder on my WIndows XP PC at c:\vcards and ran the script as follows:

cscript exportContacts.vbs c:\vcards

Hope you find this link and script helpful, I sure did, and have added it to my arsenal for