hello,

he asked for a quick and dirty way with bash, so that's what I gave him.
however, I'm curious: can you give me an example of input my script can't
handle?

regards,
Jephté

2017-02-01 20:23 GMT+04:00 Ralf Mattes <[email protected]>:

>
> Am Mittwoch, 01. Februar 2017 16:52 CET, Jephte Clain <
> [email protected]> schrieb:
>
> > using michaël's filter, you could try this:
> >
> > ldapsearch [options] '(&(ou:dn:=people)(!(ou=
> system))(!(displayName=*)))'
> > cn | awk '
> > /^dn:/ {
> >   print
> >   print "changetype: modify"
> >   print "replace: displayName"
> >   next
> > }
> > /^cn:/ {
> >   sub(/^cn/, "displayName")
> > }
> > { print }
> > ' | ldapmodify [options]
> >
> > we aren't doing your homework, are we? :-)
>
> Danger, Will Robinson!
> This will only work for dn values that aren't encoded.
> That's a trivial job for perl or python (or whatever). AWK operates
> on character streams and that's a bad fit for LDIF.
>
>  Cheers, Ralf Mattes
>
> > regards,
> > Jephté
> >
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