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[srive99]

hi all,

I'm going to need to work a lot with texpad and I need some help with it. I have bunch (thousands)of ldap dns like below

dn: cn=abc, ou=xyz, o=org

and I want to add couple of lines to those each dns like below

dn: cn=abc, ou=xyz, o=org
objectClass: user
objectClass: Top

Also, I need to grab the cn value from each dn and put it separate line for each dn and it should be like below

dn: cn=abc, ou=xyz, o=org
objectClass: user
objectClass: Top
cn=abc

dn: cn=qwer, ou=xyz, o=org
objectClass: user
objectClass: Top
cn=qwer

I know we can do this with texpad but dont know how I can do that. Thanks

[Mike Olds]

Hello,

Try this:

>Search>Replace

Search:

dn: cn=\([a-zA-Z0-9 .:/-]*\), ou=\([a-zA-Z0-9 .:/-]*\), o=\([a-zA-Z0-9 .:/-]*\)

Replace with:

dn: cn=\1, ou=\2, o=\3
objectClass: user
objectClass: Top
cn=\1



Ben will probably be able to come up with something simpler, but I believe this will do the job

[srive99]

it works great. Thanks.

But I found some thing that this regular expression does not work if "dn" has some speacial charcters like below.

dn: cn=abc xyz_qra, ou=myorg,o=org
dn: cn=ab xy lcp & bt -grp,ou=myorg,o=org
dn: cn=xy bmn as & ss & ss-feo,ou=myorg,o=org

I think, I would need everything until first comma (,) for the cn value regardless of special charcters, spaces, numbers..etc.

[Mike Olds]

You can add your special characters in the bits that look like this:

\([a-zA-Z0-9 .:/-]*\)

e.g., to add the underscore:

\([a-zA-Z0-9 .:/-_]*\)

Your example above has no space between
ou=myorg,o=org

I presume you will make the change for that.

[srive99]

Thanks for your reply...

Unfortunately it is not finding the DN's which has special charcters like _ and &, also space.

[Mike Olds]

The below works for me in this case:

dn: cn=a_bc, ou=x yz, o=o&rg

If this does not fit your situation you need to give more examples.


dn: cn=\([a-zA-Z0-9 &.:/-_]*\), ou=\([a-zA-Z0-9 &.:/-_]*\), o=\([a-zA-Z0-9 &.:/-_]*\)

Search>Replace
Match Case
Regular Expression

[srive99]

Thanks for your reply,

it still not working for me. It says "can not find regular expression". I tried with whole DN and also with only CN part.

Thanks

[ben_josephs]

Find what: dn: cn=([^,]*).*
Replace with: \0\nobjectClass: user\nobjectClass: Top\ncn=\1

[X] Regular expression

Replace All

This assumes you are using Posix regular expression syntax:

Configure | Preferences | Editor

[X] Use POSIX regular expression syntax

[srive99]

Thanks, That did the trick.