FWIW, I use this script to undo the line-folding of LDIF. Just pipe
the output of slapcat or ldapsearch or whatever through it and you'll
get something that's no longer RFC-compliant LDIF but is more amenable
to processing with text-based tools.
#!/usr/bin/perl
# Unfold LDIF so that each attribute is on a single line
my $acc;
while (<>) {
chomp;
if (s/^ //) {
$acc .= $_;
} elsif (/^\S/) {
print "$acc\n" if $acc;
$acc = $_;
} elsif (/^$/) {
print "$acc\n" if $acc;
print "$_\n";
$acc = undef;
}
}
print "$acc\n" if $acc;
Refolding is a one-liner, something like this:
perl -pe 's/^(.{76})(..*)$/$1\n $2/'
