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Tip #234   unwrapping ldapsearch's ldif output

I'm working on a project to access data from my corporate Active Directory server using ldapsearch. The version of ldapsearch that comes with Red Hat Enterprise Server spews out LDIF in column truncated format. That is to say it inserts a carriage return at column 80 of the output.

This sed goodie unwraps the ldif output.

UNWRAP=' /^ / {; H; d; }; /^ /! {; x; s/\n //; }; '
 
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