Breaking long lines into (characters, newline, space) groups
Hello,
I am currently trying to edit an ldif file. The ldif specification states that a newline followed by a space indicates the subsequent line is a continuation of the line. So, in order to search and replace properly and edit the file, I open the file in textwrangler, search for "\r " and remove it, thus making all continued lines into single lines. Thats the first step. I make my changes to the ldif file at that point.
Now, after editing, I want to break any lines with more than 79 characters, (some of which are hundreds of characters long) into this: 79 characters, newline, space, next 79 characters, newline, space, next 79 characters, newline, space, etc.
using this simple sed command:
works for the first 79 characters of line x, breaks it properly, but then moves on to the next line in the ldif, leaving line x broken into: 79 characters, newline, space, remaining chunk of line x which is hundreds of characters, next line in ldif. Only partial success!
So heres the question. Is there a way to use sed to run this command every 79th character until the end of the line? If not, alternately, should I use a loop in the script using some sort of conditional statement like, if there are lines longer than 79 characters, rerun the sed command. (so that it will go and now break the remaining hundreds of characters that were not broken in the original sed run. and continue looping till all lines are broken into (79 character, newline, space) chunks? How could I set up that condition? I dont know how to search for lines longer than x characters.
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SLAPD-LDIF(5) File Formats Manual SLAPD-LDIF(5)NAME
slapd-ldif - LDIF backend to slapd
SYNOPSIS
/etc/ldap/slapd.conf
DESCRIPTION
The LDIF backend to slapd(8) is a basic storage backend that stores entries in text files in LDIF format, and exploits the filesystem to
create the tree structure of the database. It is intended as a cheap, low performance easy to use backend, and it is exploited by higher-
level internal structures to provide a permanent storage.
CONFIGURATION
These slapd.conf options apply to the LDIF backend database. That is, they must follow a "database ldif" line and come before any subse-
quent "backend" or "database" lines. Other database options are described in the slapd.conf(5) manual page.
directory <dir>
Specify the directory where the database tree starts. The directory must exist and grant appropriate permissions (rwx) to the iden-
tity slapd is running with.
ACCESS CONTROL
The LDIF backend does not honor any of the access control semantics described in slapd.access(5). Only read (=r) access to the entry
pseudo-attribute and to the other attribute values of the entries returned by the search operation is honored, which is performed by the
frontend.
FILES
/etc/ldap/slapd.conf
default slapd configuration file
SEE ALSO slapd.conf(5), slapd-config(5), slapd(8), ldif(5).
AUTHOR
Eric Stokes
OpenLDAP 2012/04/23 SLAPD-LDIF(5)