I am trying to change this

"cn=Bob Smith+serialNumber=CR013120080827,o=ICM,c=US"

to this:

"serialNumber=CR013120080827+cn=Bob Smith,o=ICM,c=US"

There are about 2000 entries like this and I need to have them all
displayed with serialNumber first, and cn last then the rest of the
DN, the names and serialNumbers are all unique to each entry.

Any help would be great

Thanks,
gotsecure

>>>>> "S" == SecureIT <gotsecure [at] gmail.com> writes:

S> I am trying to change this
S> "cn=Bob Smith+serialNumber=CR013120080827,o=ICM,c=US"

S> to this:

S> "serialNumber=CR013120080827+cn=Bob Smith,o=ICM,c=US"

S> There are about 2000 entries like this and I need to have them all
S> displayed with serialNumber first, and cn last then the rest of the
S> DN, the names and serialNumbers are all unique to each entry.

are all the entries separated by +? how many are there (you show only 2)?

if it is always + then you can just split the lines, grab out the cn one
(use grep) and also filter out the rest. then order them as you
want. call join '+' to rebuild the line. it can also be done with a hash
but that is about the same amount of code.

uri

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SecureIT writes:
> I am trying to change this
> "cn=Bob Smith+serialNumber=CR013120080827,o=ICM,c=US"
> to this:
> "serialNumber=CR013120080827+cn=Bob Smith,o=ICM,c=US"

Without escape sequences like "\," and "\+" in the DNs (if that's
allowed anyway, I don't remember the details of X.500 Dn syntax), this
moves serialNumber first in each RDN:

s/(^|,)([^,]*)\+(serialNumber=[^+,]*)(?=[+,])/$1$3+$2/gi;
die "didn't catch all 'foo+serialNumber's" if /\+serialNumber=/i;

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