unwrap ldifde output file

Question

I'm exporting a schema using ldifde but the output file wraps long lines so it's hard to manually edit with thousand's lines.

I have to edit the file because I must replace a string there, for example:

distinguishedName: 
 CN=xxx-com-Admin-Assistant-yy,CN=Schema,CN=Configuration,-->DC=morel,DC=mis,DC=mo
 r-ambiguit,<--DC=com

to

distinguishedName: 
 CN=xxx-com-Admin-Assistant-yy,CN=Schema,CN=Configuration,-->DC=myDomain,<--DC=com

As you can see I should first unwrap the file and then replace the string, otherwise the replace won't work Any clues on how I should perform that. I tried perl script but not luck. Also I looked into ldifde options.

Thank in advance, m0dest0

Answer 1

If you strictly want to import the schema from one domain to another using LDIFDE, you can use the -c parameter from LDIFDE to change one DN to another, see KB237677: Using LDIFDE to import and export directory objects to Active Directory.

-c FromDN ToDN  Replace occurrences of FromDN to ToDN

Answer 2

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict ;

my $orig = do { local $/ ; <DATA> } ;
( my $copy = $orig ) =~ s/(DC=)(.+?)(,DC=com)/$1myDomain$3/xsg ;

printf "Before:\n%s\nAfter:\n%s\n" , $orig , $copy ;

__DATA__
distinguishedName:
 CN=xxx-com-Admin-Assistant-yy,CN=Schema,CN=Configuration,DC=morel,DC=mis,DC=mo
 r-ambiguit,DC=com

And this will print:

Before:
distinguishedName:
 CN=xxx-com-Admin-Assistant-yy,CN=Schema,CN=Configuration,DC=morel,DC=mis,DC=mo
 r-ambiguit,DC=com

After:
distinguishedName:
 CN=xxx-com-Admin-Assistant-yy,CN=Schema,CN=Configuration,DC=myDomain,DC=com