Today I had to search again on how to remove newline special characters with sed. Thanks to Kamil over at linux.dsplabs.com.au, I found it again rather quickly.
Now, this is just for my own safekeeping, so I don’t end up googling for it again … *shrug*
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echo -e "Line containing nnewlines!" | sed ':a;N;$!ba;s/n//g' |
Since my talk with Robin on Thursday regarding the autogenerated userinfo.xml, I finally found some time today to get all the info’s I need out of userinfo.xml.
Since I don’t really want to manually enter all those mail addresses from userinfo into LDAP manually, I figured sed might be my best friend. *BUT* sed ain’t easy .. But thanks to Fabian and Gilles, I learned something new about sed today ..
Basically I searched for a way to transform userinfo.xml into a datafile for ldapedit.
As most of you know, userinfo.xml would look like this:
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Christian Heim 0x9A9F68E6 phreak@gentoo.org 06 August 2005 vserver, openvz, kernel Germany, Stralsund |
So the first step would be to simply use egrep on userinfo.xml to filter only the things I needed ..
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celsius roll-call [0] $ egrep "(username=|<email |)" userinfo.xml |
That looks more like a processable list to me. Now I only needed to convert the into dn, the into mail and be done with it.
This is what I applied on top of the above filter:
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celsius roll-call [0] $ egrep "(username=|<email |)" userinfo.xml | sed -e "s,.*$,,ou=devs,dc=gentoo,dc=orgnadd: mail," -e 's,.*,mail: ,' -e "s,,," -e "s, ,," |
And that’s it, I just need to check the dn’s for all the users, and when I’m done with that, finito!