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Perl one liner to remove a line that carries over to another new line which starts with a space

Asked by bt707 in Perl Programming Language

I need a perl one liner, I need to remove some fields from a ldap dump to give to Sun for some troubleshooting, the problem I have is I can remove the lines I need but not everything. The way the ldap records work is if there is a line that carries over to another line there is a space at the first of the line which tell ldap that it is one line.

The ldap dump I have is now just a text file but if I remove the lines I need it does not remove the rest of the line on the attributes I'm removing if there is a carry over to a new line.

Example:

In this part of a example I'm I need to remove the homePostalAddress: which if I remove it a few ways that I know how I just remove the line of homePostalAddress: 65 Millfield Lane, Nether Poppleton, York, YO26 6NB, Un, but the continuation of that attribute is carried over to the next line so the ( ited Kingdom,) is not removed.

dn: cn=John Doe 100397,ou=employee,o=abc,c=ou
modifyTimestamp: 20080308162306Z
modifiersName: cn=John Doe 100397,ou=employee,o=abc,c=ou
schedule: 2008
schedule: Jan 08-10 : La Defense , Paris , France
schedule: Jan 13-19 : Austin / Houston TX , USA : WS Review
schedule: Mar 09-14 : Brega/Benghazi/Tripoli, Libya
schedule: Mar 18 : London , client visit (Tullow)
schedule: Apr 06-22 : Port Gentil,Pointe Noire,Luanda,Cabinda,J'burg,Cape Town
schedule: Apr28-01May: La Defense / Clamart , Paris
lastModifiedBy: self
homePostalAddress: 65 Millfield Lane, Nether Poppleton, York, YO26 6NB, Un
ited Kingdom,
businessCategory: O530-WCS Staff
locationCode: WSV

I'm trying to find a perl one liner where it would make the above example come out to be:

dn: cn=John Doe 100397,ou=employee,o=abc,c=ou
modifyTimestamp: 20080308162306Z
modifiersName: cn=John Doe 100397,ou=employee,o=abc,c=ou
schedule: 2008
schedule: Jan 08-10 : La Defense , Paris , France
schedule: Jan 13-19 : Austin / Houston TX , USA : WS Review
schedule: Mar 09-14 : Brega/Benghazi/Tripoli, Libya
schedule: Mar 18 : London , client visit (Tullow)
schedule: Apr 06-22 : Port Gentil,Pointe Noire,Luanda,Cabinda,J'burg,Cape Town
schedule: Apr28-01May: La Defense / Clamart , Paris
lastModifiedBy: self
businessCategory: O530-WCS Staff
locationCode: WSV

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Perl one liner to remove a line that carries over to another new line which starts with a space

Asked by bt707 in Perl Programming Language

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