Re: Cleaning slapcat(1) LDIF output

Jordi Espasa Clofent writes:

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# cleaning the LDIF and dump the results in another file $ egrep -ve '^(entryUUID|creatorsName|structuralObjectClass|createTimestamp|entryCSN|modifiersName|modifyTimestamp): ' \ test_backup.ldif > test_backup_cleaned.ldif

Note that long LDIF lines can be split. A line starting with space is a continuation of the previous line. So pass the LDIF file through perl -wp00e 's/\r?\n //g' before doing per-line operations like 'grep' on it.

Should only be relevant in this case for creatorsName or modifiersName if they're longer than something like 'cn=admin,dc=example,dc=com', but it's a good habit to get into anyway.

I wonder whether it makes sense to allow an optional (negated) list of attributes to return.

p.