Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi,
input file and expected output files attached.
Thanks again!

Did you copy/paste into the old.txt file ?

How has the old.txt file been generated ?

please open with wordpad, notepad removes line formation.
old.txt is the output of the ldapsearch...

Code:

awk 'NR<2{printf $0;next}{printf "%s",(/^ /?z:RS) $0}END{print RS}' yourfile | awk '/shadow:/,/shadow>/{next}/^ *.$/{next}1'

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Yup, i know, what i meant was :

is old.txt the result of an unix command or script or whatever ?

or the result of a job that run in an application ? or from anywhere else ?

How has this input file been generated ?

Because it seems this file has been generated in a very bad way, with truncated lines even without a fixed length ... so it seems to be a very crap format that make me suspect that is has not been generated in the correct way it shoud have been.

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To keep the fsCert and fsKey in 2 separate line and having their second line starting with a space, you can give a try to :

Code:

awk 'NR<2{printf $0;next}{printf "%s",(/^ /?z:RS) $0}END{print RS}' yourfile | awk '/shadow:/,/shadow>/{next}/^ *.$/{next}/^fs(Cert|Key)/{x=$NF;NF--;print $0 RS FS x;next}1'