Added option to sort attributes within each entry.

contrib/ldifsort.pl

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #! /usr/bin/perl
 
-# $Id: ldifsort.pl,v 1.1 2001/07/03 19:30:02 gbarr Exp $
+# $Id: ldifsort.pl,v 1.2 2003/06/24 21:58:34 kartik_subbarao Exp $
 
 =head1 NAME
 
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ =head1 DESCRIPTION
 
 =head1 SYNOPSIS
 
-ldifsort.pl B<-k keyattr> [B<-nd>] file.ldif
+ldifsort.pl B<-k keyattr> [B<-and>] file.ldif
 
 =over 4
 
@@ -23,6 +23,12 @@ =head1 SYNOPSIS
 specified, sorting is done by the full DN string, which can be composed of 
 different attributes for different entries.
 
+=item B<-a>
+
+Specifies that attributes within a given entry should also be sorted. This
+has the side effect of removing all comments and line continuations in the 
+LDIF file.
+
 =item B<-n>
 
 Specifies numeric comparisons on the key attribute. Otherwise string
@@ -51,9 +57,10 @@ =head1 AUTHOR
 use strict;
 
 my %args;
-getopts("k:nd", \%args);
+getopts("k:and", \%args);
 
 my $keyattr = $args{k};
+my $sortattrs = $args{a};
 my $ldiffile = $ARGV[0];
 
 die "usage: $0 -k keyattr [-n] [-d] ldiffile\n"
@@ -96,7 +103,14 @@ sub cmpdn {
 foreach my $valuepos (@sorted) {
 	seek(LDIFH, $valuepos->[1], 0);
 	my $entry = <LDIFH>;
-	print $entry;
-	print "\n" if $entry !~ /\n\n$/;
+	if ($sortattrs) {
+		$entry =~ s/\n //mg; # collapse line continuations
+		my @lines = grep(!/^#/, split(/\n/, $entry));
+		my $dn = shift(@lines);
+		print "$dn\n", join("\n", sort @lines), "\n\n";
+	}
+	else {
+		print $entry;
+		print "\n" if $entry !~ /\n\n$/;
+	}
 }
-