Re: slapcat generate extra "space" characters in LDIF output

FWIW, I use this script to undo the line-folding of LDIF. Just pipe the output of slapcat or ldapsearch or whatever through it and you'll get something that's no longer RFC-compliant LDIF but is more amenable to processing with text-based tools.

#!/usr/bin/perl # Unfold LDIF so that each attribute is on a single line my $acc; while (<>) { chomp; if (s/^ //) { $acc .= $_; } elsif (/^\S/) { print "$acc\n" if $acc; $acc = $_; } elsif (/^$/) { print "$acc\n" if $acc; print "$_\n"; $acc = undef; } } print "$acc\n" if $acc;

Refolding is a one-liner, something like this:

perl -pe 's/^(.{76})(..*)$/$1\n $2/'