Ulrich Windl wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I'm working on a program that "mangles" existing LDIF files so that the LDAP
> server accepts them.
> So say 75% passed, 25% had errors (need additional fixes).
>
> I'm using ldapadd with "-c" (continue) and "-S skipped.ldif" (skipped
> entries) to add the input LDIF.
>
> The idea was to iterate over skipped.ldif until the file is empty, i.e.: make
> skipped.ldif the new input file for the next run of ldapadd.
> However "skipped.ldif" also contains entries that were skipped, because they
> had been imported (successfully) before ("ldap_add: Already exists (68)").
>
> Is there an easy way to extract only those entries that were not added?
>
> Of course I could write a program that implements that logic, talking to the
> LDAP server directly, but if avoidable I'd save the time to write such a
> program.
Don't use -c, fix errors as they appear, and use -j to resume.
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