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ando(a)sys-net.it wrote:
> Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
>
>>> I'm hitting an issue like this in some of the replication tests I'm
>>> currently performing. For this purpose, I think we could hack
>>> ldapsearch (or add a new prog, or use a script on ldapsearch output)
>>> that sorts entries content attribute-wise and, within each attribute,
>>> value-wise. Something like "sort" applied entry-wise after unwrapping
>>> line folding, optionally case-insensitive would probably suffice.
>> I have a script somewhere from Matt Backes @ Symas that sorts LDIF
>> files. It was useful for seeing if it made any difference in slapadd (it
>> didn't).
>
> Well, if it were distributable, and written in a widely supported
> scripting language, it would be quite useful...
What do you consider a "widely supported scripting language"?
During some discussions about the test suite I felt that having a more
powerful scripting language would help dealing with some of the problems
in a more elegant way.
Ciao, Michael.