Hello, I'd like to seek your help on tedious task I'm fighting today. I need to reformat ldapsearch output to acceptable form, and I'd prefer to do that inline with one command. Originally I had complex piped steps of sed and grep and then I realized perl could do that better but I don't know how. Basically I'd like to drop empty or ^dn: lines and merge some other lines together while trimming them. Source looks like this:

dn: distinguished_name1
cn: common_name1
orclnetdescstring: complex_address_line1

dn: distinguished_name2
cn: common_name2
orclnetdescstring: complex_address_line2

dn: distinguished_name3
cn: common_name3
orclnetdescstring: complex_address_line3

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And the result should go like this: 
common_name1=complex_address_line1
common_name2=complex_address_line2
common_name3=complex_address_line3

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Now I believed this one liner, which I completed with help here would do that: perl -p0e 's/\n^$|\n^dn:*$//mg','s/cn: //g','s/\norclnetdescstring: /=/g' nejms.txt but it doesn't. And as it's getting more complex, I can't see the errors and maybe I'd be better with original sequence of more generic commands, I'm not sure.

In reply to Reformat command output inline by RenMcCourtey

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