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# 1  
Old 12-17-2012
Question Formatting output of script
I'm looking for a way to neaten up the out put of an ldapquery. I might get one, none, or several returns for each query; and each query consists of multiple lines. And while each return will contain the same types of info, it might be in a different order, like:

uniq: 1
ip: 192.168.2.3
serial: ABC123
user: smith
lab: A

uniq: 2
serial: QWERTY321
lab: 12
ip: 192.168.3.4
user: jdoe

Given the above, I'd like to wind up with:
Code:
UNIQ  SERIAL    IP           USER    LAB
1     ABC123    192.168.2.3  jsmith  A
2     QWERTY321 192.168.3.4  jdoe    12

What would be the best tool(s) to use to get moving in that direction?
# 2  
Old 12-17-2012
You could try using awk (nawk if your on Solaris):

Code:
awk -F: '
{ for(i=1;i<NF;i+=2) {
     V[NR,$i]=substr($(i+1),2)
     l=length(V[NR,$i])
     if (length($1)>l) l=length($1)
     if (l>M[$i]) M[$i]=l
  }
}
END {
  for(C in M) printf("%-"(M[C]+1)"s",toupper(C))
  printf "\n"
  for(i=1;i<=NR;i++) {
      for(C in M) printf("%-"M[C]+1"s",V[i,C])
      printf "\n"
  }
}' RS= infile

# 3  
Old 12-19-2012
Thanks for the suggestion. But it made a horrible hash of a sample data set :-(

I've found there's another issue... not every query result necessarily contains all of the attributes. There are items in some results that are not in others.

I'm trying to think of a way to harvest all possible attributes in each set of returns, and then inject each result into an array or something and include a null value for any missing attributes. There is a finite set of possible attributes, and I could pre-build them into my script, but creating that dynamically is a better long-term solution in case attributes are added or removed in the future.
# 4  
Old 12-19-2012
try:
Code:
awk -F" *: *" '
!a[$1]++ && /./ {t[c++]=$1} $1==t[0] {r++} {v[r-1,$1]=$2}
END {
  for (i=0; i<c; i++) {printf("%-15s", toupper(t[i]))} print "";
  for (j=0; j<r; j++) { for (i=0; i<c; i++) {printf("%-15s", v[j,t[i]])} print ""; }
}' infile

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