Shell Programming and Scripting

#!/usr/bin/ksh

for DN in "/cn=Printer1/ou=HR/dc=N/A/dc=fabrikam/dc=com" "/cn=Printer1 Building 1/ou=HR/dc=N/A/dc=fabrikam/dc=com"
do
    print "$DN"
    print "$DN" | nawk -F/ '{
        for (i=2; i<=NF; i++) {
            if (i <= (NF-1) && match($(i+1),"=")==0) {
                print $i"/"$(i+1)
                i++
            }
            else
                print $i
        }
    }'
    print
done
exit 0

BEGIN { FS = OFS = "=" ; q = "\"" }
{ $NF = q $NF q
  for (i=2; i<NF; i++ )
  { match( $i, /.*\// )
    $i = q substr($i,1,RLENGTH-1) q substr($i,RLENGTH)
  }
  print
}

#--------------------------------
# function _quoteDN
#
# Purpose: Takes DN input and quotes the DN string values.
# 	   This function was designed specifically to handle a "/" within a value.
# 		
# Example input: /cn=Printer1 Building 1/ou=HR/dc=N/A/dc=fabrikam/dc=com
#        output: /cn="Printer1 Building 1"/ou="HR"/dc="N/A"/dc="fabrikam"/dc="com"
#
#-----------------------------------

function _quoteDN () {

      DN="$@"
      print "$DN" | awk -F/ '
      BEGIN {
         PLINE=""
         gsub(/"/,"") 	
      }
      {
        for (i=2; i<=NF; i++) {
            if (i <= (NF-1) && match($(i+1),"=")==0) {
			gsub(/=/, "=\"", $i)
			PLINE = PLINE "/" $i"/"$(i+1) "\"" 
		$(i+1)=""
		i++
   		}
            else 
		gsub(/=/, "=\"", $i)
       		if ($i != "") {
			PLINE = PLINE "/" $i "\""
		}
		else 
			PLINE = PLINE $i 
    	    	}
	}
	END { echo PLINE }'
return
}